How to Build an Engineer: Start Young
Can you imagine? Today’s parents can’t even envision the specifics of the jobs our children will pursue – the jobs for which are so dedicated to preparing them. But we do know that the high-paying jobs of tomorrow’s American economy will be overwhelmingly engineering intensive. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, engineering is expected […]
Report Highlights Importance of Affordable Supplemental Education in NYC!
A Spike in Failures The end of 2018 brought to a close the first five years of Common Core standards in New York high schools. After an initial drop in Regents exam pass rates, we thought we were out of the woods. Beginning in 2014-15, Common Core’s second year, scores improved and remained stable. Now, […]
Learning Loss: A Summer Opportunity
It’s a perplexing problem; American students have the longest summer break of any industrialized country. Summertime parental stress is on the rise while kids’ learning retention is decreasing. Studies show that students lose the knowledge equivalent of one month of instruction per year because of summer learning loss. Yet large-scale solutions evade American schools, teachers, and […]
Education Predictions for 2018
On the SmartBrief blog, prolific education blogger and author Fred Ende has graciously presented three predictions related to education in New York for the coming year. While we can only anticipate so much in this fast-paced field, our experience at FasTracKids gives us every reason to believe that Mr. Ende is on to something. What […]
Cashing in on (Distant Future) College Majors
Today’s Money-Making Majors The Cashlorette recently published an interesting (Depressing? Terrifying?) piece listing the top five most (monetarily) valuable college majors of 2017. The dismal pay associated with the top five least valuable degrees makes an appearance as well. It’s not hard to guess what the bullets on each of those lists have in common. […]
FasTracKids Develops Critical Thinking Skills
A recent article on Edutopia discusses how we define critical thinking in today’s educational world and how we can develop critical thinking skills in our students. We have been developing critical thinking skills in NYC students for over a decade. The FasTracKids program innately develops these skills in students enrolled in our classes. The Edutopia […]
Math in The Morning
In keeping our finger on the pulse of education, we’ve come across a few articles expressing that the U.S. is slipping in Math performance on the international stage. We think there is much room for improvement – here is regional director Franco Verdino on the topic: When we run our summer programs, we always have […]