Preparing Students for Whatever Lies Ahead

BellaTutor is actively building a program for consulting with parents regarding their children’s education needs to help them build a plan to ensure maximum success both intellectually and vocationally. We firmly believe that young men and women, beginning in middle school, need to have training to

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The Importance of Self-education

I wish I could write the following sentence and end this article there:  The secret to getting a good education is to do it yourself. Unfortunately, most people aren’t satisfied with this. Most people want you to tell them how to do it. There is no question that

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Another News Piece about the Failures of Standardized Tests

“It’s bad enough that students are required to take high-stakes standardized tests that are often poorly designed and administered, don’t assess what kids have learned, and have “cut scores” deliberately set high so few students can get top scores. What’s more, some of these K-12 “accountability”

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My Latest Profile Description for the WyzAnt Tutor Network

As an independent educator, finding students, getting the word out, is always one of the trickiest aspects. For over seven years, WyzAnt has provided me with a large percentage of my students. They have an outstanding network, and if you decide I’m not the right guy

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What is BellaTutor, Anyway?

BellaTutor grew from my individual work as an educator and education theorist. After working as an educator for over ten years and studying education theory for over twenty years, I had done more and more work outside the education establishment, including over eight years of ACT

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Education for the Working Man

I have a strong affinity for those who are often referred to as the “working class.” Many of the best qualities of American culture came from working class individuals of the 17th and 18th centuries. Many of them were educated, but they were working class, nonetheless.

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Big Changes

In the near future, BellaTutor will be taking a new direction with our services. From the beginning, our goal has been to help students become self-actuating learners. We’ve done this quite well, but it isn’t enough. Too many times we find that there are misunderstandings as

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What Education is All About

While the theorists pontificate, the students continue to struggle, confused by the barrage of testimonies they hear from parents, teachers, and politicians, a constant stream of accusations, finger-pointing, and blame-shifting—and no clear solution in sight. In reality, the solution is extremely simple but at times very hard:

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