May 24, 2019
What is a Summer Learning Box?Here at New England Tutors, we recognize that although we would love all students to continue their tutoring and learning through the summer months, for some families it is not practical due to scheduling conflicts, time constraints as...
May 8, 2019
Deficient executive skills, anxiety and depression may be signs of AD/HD “More than meets the eye.” This expression is familiar to parents, educators and physicians who know too well that there is often more to a situation than what they see on the surface. However,...
Feb 20, 2019
The majority of today’s school-age students belong to the Gen Z population, those born between 1995 and 2010. They have been defined as the largest generation in the U.S. In fact, come 2020 they will represent 40% of the population. The Internet has always been a part...
Jan 24, 2018
Jamie Barber, Executive Skills Coach, New England Tutors According to researchers Friedman, et al. in their article “Not All Executive Functions are Related to Intelligence,” the executive functions of planning, decision-making, and self-regulation have long been...
Aug 22, 2017
I wrote a happy ending to this piece and filed it to my editor. Julia Lurie, author, in the July/August 2017 Issue of Mother Jones. When I read that, I knew what was coming. The article, Children of the Opioid Epidemic Are Flooding Foster Homes. America Is Turning a...
