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College Counseling Visiting Colleges

Has this happened to you yet? You’re thinking about building your college list, but then realize there are over 4,500 colleges and universities in the USA alone, and finding your best fit starts to feel like an impossible mountain to climb. Time to talk about college tours. Bottom line: ...

 

3 Test Prep Material Updates Designed to Get You Results!

Here at AJ Tutoring, we are always striving to keep our test prep materials as up-to-date as possible in order to better serve and prepare our students. In order to do this, we continually audit and update our materials to make them as effective as possible. Here’s what we’re working on right ...

 

Helping Your Student Learn to Read the Common Core Way

The Common Core requires students to read more than ever, but the type of reading - and how they are assessed on that reading - can seem pretty different from how most of us learned to read. Instead of reading only fiction, our students are being pushed to branch out and read nonfiction earlier ...

 

Second Harvest Volunteer Days

In November, nearly 30 AJ team members volunteered at Second Harvest in San Jose and San Carlos to help provide food for those in need before the holidays. Our team sorted produce and boxed food items in the organization’s warehouses during the morning sort shift. Second Harvest serves 250,000 ...

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