Archive - The Art of Tutoring

Tutoring is an Anti-Tech Process (Part 4 of 4)

National test scores are declining, while money spent on Education Technology is increasing.

Jun 6 •

April 2025

Education Technology (Part 3 of 4)

Pivoting from anxiety to technology….

Apr 25 •

March 2025

A Culture of Anxiety (Part 2 of 4)

A culture of anxiety pervades the K-12 academic experience.

Mar 21 •

February 2025

The Anxious Education (Part 1)

This is the first of four posts focusing on different forms of anxiety in education and the technology that pervades the academic experience.

Feb 13 •

April 2024

Tutoring Is A Form Of Healing

When I work with struggling students, I use the tutorial as a way of healing them from the bruises inflicted in the classroom, from chronic confusion…

Apr 23, 2024 •

February 2024

Why Actors Make Good Tutors

Over the past two decades, I’ve collaborated with many tutors, and what links almost all of them is their background in acting.

Feb 5, 2024 •

December 2023

Does Tutoring Work?

Is tutoring effective?

Dec 22, 2023 •

October 2023

The Grading Wars should really be called Studying Wars

Oct 19, 2023 •

September 2023

Is Grading Fair?

Sep 6, 2023 •

June 2023

Privilege and the College Admissions “Arms Race": Review of "I left My Homework in the Hamptons"

Jun 9, 2023 •

May 2023

Failure and Flow: Review of "I left My Homework in the Hamptons"

May 1, 2023 •

April 2023

Review of Blythe Grossberg’s I left My Homework in the Hamptons: What I Learned Teaching the Children of the One Percent

Apr 3, 2023 •

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