Dear Sasha and Malia,
You probably don’t spend much time in the East Room of your house, but on Wednesday your dad invited more than 100 of the country’s top teachers there to announce his new “Educate to Innovate” campaign. After handing out some awards, he joked about putting his guests to work:
“As I mentioned to some of you, because I’ve got two girls upstairs with math tests coming up, I figure that a little extra help from the best of the best couldn’t hurt. So you’re going to have assignments after this. These awards were not free.”
We assume you did just fine on those math tests.
Unfortunately, you won’t always have a crowd of brilliant teachers downstairs to help you study. Of course, you could always get help from your parents, but they’ll both be pretty busy for the next three to seven years. So what’s a first daughter to do?
Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. Tutor.com has thousands of certified math and science tutors available to help you with homework, studying and lab reports, 24/7. We cover social studies, history and essay-writing too—and we can even help you prepare for the SAT when you start thinking about college.
So the next time you’re stuck on a tough problem, don’t drag your dad out of a meeting with the National Security Council. Our tutors are just a few clicks away, and there’s no charge for military families (as daughters of the commander-in-chief, we figure you qualify) or patrons of the DC Public Library. We hope to see you soon!
Sincerely,
The Tutor.com Team
Posted in Math and Science, Military Families, Our Local Libraries.
By Jake Ramsey
– January 8, 2010
Posted in Fun Stuff.
By Adam Masur
– December 10, 2009
In Tutor.com’s first ever back-to-school season in 2001, a student connected to a tutor through the Louisville Public Library’s website to get help with an English assignment. Our 97 tutors would go on to provide 1,466 on-demand tutoring and homework sessions through the end of the year, helping students who were using the program through several public libraries including Boston Public Library, San Francisco Public Library and the Library of Charlotte Mecklenburg County.
Today, Tutor.com has more than 1,800 tutors and we conduct about 1,500 online tutoring sessions in two hours every day after-school. Students of all ages use Tutor.com thanks to more than 1,800 public libraries, schools and corporations as well as the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps that offer Tutor.com services free to the students in their respective communities. Students connect to a tutor from wherever they have a computer and Internet access.
A lot has changed since those first few months in 2001. We’ve since won lots of awards, brought on thousands of tutors and now, our latest achievement? We’ve conducted our five millionth session. That’s a lot of answered questions about science fair projects and balanced chemical equations. We’ve found the length of side B and the themes in Of Mice and Men quite a few times.
It’s a big number and we are really, really proud of such an accomplishment. If you are wondering how to size-up five million online tutoring sessions go to www.tutor.com/5million for our top fun facts and watch our video that shows just where across the United States students have been using Tutor.com.
We also want to say “Thank You.” Thank you to all the organizations that have provided this service to their patrons, to the students who have left us wonderful comments that make our days brighter (students told us that Tutor.com “rocks” almost 9,000 times in post session comments), to the librarians and program managers who are always finding new and creative ways to tell their communities about the service and to the thousands of tutors who are helping with all of those “aha!” moments. Thanks, and here’s to the next fifty million!
Posted in Fun Stuff, Our Local Libraries.
By Erica Manney
– December 9, 2009
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