Current Events: Real News for Real People A key aspect of being a well-educated student is being a well-informed student. Studying and following the curriculum in the classroom is a great start. However, to become engaged and active citizens in our complex society, students—and parents, teachers, and everyone else—must constantly seek out information and knowledge on their own. Following current…
Ally Learning is in the homework helping business. We offer the Homework Help program at the Ally Learning Center in Redford. We will also be offering the Homework Help Club at some of the local schools in the area. Finally, in addition to these two initiatives, we have one-on-one tutoring where we assist students with their daily workload. It would…
TIME MANAGEMENT Time—the scarcest of all resources. All students (and really, all people) would love to have more time. Twenty-four hours per day just doesn’t seem like enough when one is spending nearly a third of it in the classroom. Actually, 7-8 hours in the classroom isn’t all bad on the surface. Of course, when you add up the hours…
READING TIME One of our regular features on the Ally Learning Home page is “The Book of the Month.” Every month we will feature a book, fiction or non-fiction, which one of our tutors has read and would like to share with both students and parents alike. With March being National Reading Month, there is no better time to launch…
BACK TO BASICS: APOSTROPHES The implementation, or lack thereof, of proper punctuation can often make the difference between a clear sentence and a nonsensical one. As the writer, you do not want the reader to work to figure out your intent. Unfortunately, in the age of texting, too many of us have decided that punctuation is a thing of the…