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Common Grammar Mistakes We’ve All Made

Grammar mistakes can derail any piece of text. They happen while you write a school essay or sending an email to your...

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4 Strategies for Remembering Everything You Learn

Learning is complicated! To truly learn – that is to understand and retain new information – you may need to first learn...

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7 Tips to Help with Test Taking Anxiety

antoniodiaz/Shutterstock You’ve turned in all of your homework, written an A+ paper, and answered questions in class with ease. But when the...

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SAT and ACT Essentials

Our latest video provides important information regarding those upcoming SAT and ACT tests. Check it out!

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A Look at the Learning Challenge

  The Learning Challenge with James Nottingham from Challenging Learning on Vimeo. The Learning Challenge, created by James Nottingham, uses the concept...

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