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One of the biggest low-cost growth areas is in online tutoring, a relatively new addition to the $4 billion test prep industry. The Princeton Review's cheapest online program - which includes three weeks of access to practice tests and online office hours with a certified instructor - will set you...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAT in the Recession: Test-Prep Prices Drop | 3/14/2009 | See Source »

Test prep teachers acknowledge that giving up the face-to-face mentoring aspect of tutoring could have a downside, namely that there's often no one cracking the whip to force kids to study. But for many students, scheduling cyber tutoring is more manageable than a marathon weekend session offline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAT in the Recession: Test-Prep Prices Drop | 3/14/2009 | See Source »

And, of course, the price is right, particularly for the suddenly cash-strapped families who in recent years coughed up extravagant sums for private tutoring. Laura Wilson, founder of WilsonDailyPrep, based in wealthy Chappaqua, N.Y., says she regularly gets calls from parents who had signed their children up for private...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAT in the Recession: Test-Prep Prices Drop | 3/14/2009 | See Source »

For fans of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa captured the image of the frizzy, white haired, eccentric conductor. At the tender of age of 42, however, Alan T. Gilbert ’89, musical director designate of the world-renowned New York Philharmonic, belies such stereotypes. His career has...

Author: By Mark A. Fusunyan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: SPOTLIGHT: Alan T. Gilbert '09 | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

As a second-semester junior with plenty of academic and extracurricular obligations, I’ve often contemplated taking a semester or year away from Harvard to travel. There’s no shortage of plans for what I could do with my time away—as a student...

Author: By Claire G. Bulger, Anita J Joseph, Eugene Kim, Emma M. Lind, and Megan A. Shutzer | Title: Annotations: Change of Place | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

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