I had dinner with Robert Angarita (the founder of Cramster.com) and his wife the other night.
If you haven’t heard of Cramster it’s definitely worth checking out.  Their site does a great job of offering students homework help and the site is huge with over 120,000 active members.
It’s a great alternative or complement to tutoring because instead of meeting [...]

Textbooks can be surprisingly expensive for many students.  The problem is made worse by university professors who publish their own textbooks and require their students to buy them to drive sales.  Worse still, they may come out with new versions of the book every few years that contains little new content but entirely different page [...]

When the term evolution is brought up, people automatically think about Charles Darwin and his theory of natural selection. Indeed, it is quite a powerful theory that has triumphed over all the other theories of evolution. However, back in the day when evolution was a hotly debated topic, Lamarck’s theory of use and disuse put [...]

By Carol S. Dweck – reprinted from Scientific American.
Hint: Don’t tell your kids that they are. More than three decades of research shows that a focus on effort—not on intelligence or ability—is key to success in school and in life.
A brilliant student, Jonathan sailed through grade school. He completed his assignments easily and routinely earned [...]

Ever wonder how “smart” people seem to memorize everything the night before an exam?
Sure there are a few rare people who are born with a natural gift for memory (for example, the 2004 World Memory Champion Ben Pridmore memorized the order of cards in a randomly shuffled 52-card deck in 31 seconds). But for [...]

If you’re like most students, you’ve seen an add for a speed reading course at some point in your life and wondered if it was real.
Well, the short answer is a resounding YES.  But there is a longer answer as well:
The appeal of speed reading is that it will save you time on homework and [...]