Tragically, a few weeks ago we had a death due to a drug overdose in our town, a “nice” community,” quiet and comfortable, located south of Boston. We did not know the young person; we knew of him, and we know many of his classmates.

A few comments:

Do not make the mistake of thinking that this could […]

We had a group tutoring session last night, and a couple of the students I worked with were obviously tired. They did poorly – very uncharacteristic for them – on the evening’s practice reading and writing sections. And they were not as sharp as usual at absorbing the explanations when we went over their mistakes.

I […]

You will very likely feel time pressure on the reading section. You cannot afford to spend too long reading any particular passage nor answering any particular question. Keep your eye on the time and force yourself to move along.

Of the five reading passages, by far the hardest for most kids is what I call the […]