I spent four days last week at Jen Zoe’s Zenergen Stables in Orlando, a world of green, fresh-air, horses, and constant chatter about personality types, love, life, and childhood.

As I have started to hire and train tutors, whom to hire has become the question to tackle.

My students’ ACT Scores have risen 8.2 points on average so far this year – equivalent to about 300 points on the 1600-scale SAT.

April’s ACT Writing Scores are out today, three and a half weeks after the test.

Josh Waitzkin has been blowing my mind lately.

A former child chess prodigy, Waitzkin was the real-life inspiration for the movie Searching for Bobby Fisher.

I took the ACT yesterday, filing into a nervous classroom in South Brooklyn filled with kids half my age.

I have heard of several strategies to approach a Reading Passage.

My most exciting breakthrough in tutoring lately has been teaching my students “Growth” versus “Judger” Mindsets.

I have been amazed at how much this has resonated with students.

A couple weeks ago I realized that I was reading ACT Science questions differently than most of my students.

My students tended to read the entire question at once…