HSA tutoring is a fraudulent service…read more Dont be blindsided by how they market themselves on the website as being top tier Harvard students or the fact they only employ the best for tutoring. which is a lie they employ any homeless person and brand them as high achieving Harvard students. The reality is they employ individuals who don't care about tutoring. An even less about you as the client. All the agency is interested in taking money from clients. I failed my assignment after taking up a tutoring service with HSA. Yes you heard right failed. Yet they claim they are Harvard rising stars. I was assigned a tutor a month before my assignment was due which was very reasonable. however, the tutor they assigned me didnt respond to my emails for weeks and only contacted me couple of days before my assignment was due to fit me in at 8pm at night. What a complete joke of a service !!! Honestly HSA is a con, stay well away from this place, other wise you will be deceived. Take your kid to a reliable tutoring service !

In advance of our daughter's first (and hopefully final) SAT, we decided on HSA's Customized SAT…read morePrep Package (20 hrs. w/ no online sessions). She worked with three different tutors throughout the package, Christine, Daniela, and Iman. They were all great and very communicative in terms of scheduling, and so was the HSA coordinator team. Did an outstanding job of listening to all feedback and making any needed adjustments, and the one time an online session was required due to scheduling, everything went super smoothly. Iman especially is outstanding! Our daughter made great strides working with her, getting through tons of material, honing testing skills, and building the kind of confidence that can really make or break the big day. She's amazing at giving day and week of prep advice above and beyond pen and paper. Thanks for all your hard work, HSA Tutoring!

My son has been going to AoPS Lexington for the past 3 years, and has nothing but great things to…read moresay about the classes and the teachers. The several courses he has taken in Math and Physics have helped him improve his problem-solving skills, critical thinking and conceptual depth in the individual areas. As a consequence, they have also prepared him immensely for contests outside of school.

Do not send young children here. The assessor who met with my child had zero experience with young…read morechildren. He was rude and abrupt and impatient. He obviously did not understand how children learn and what they need. It would be like entrusting your child to someone who spent all his time online and couldn't deal with people in real life.

My five stars are for this particular Kumon location and its staff. The "Kumon Method" is a…read moredifferent subject entirely, ok guys? The cost is $100 per subject per child. So both math and reading (and that's all there is) would be $200/month for either one or two weekly visits to the center. The center is open Monday, Thursday, and Saturday for classwork, but students have Kumon worksheets everyday. I wish there had been a yelp review of what Kumon was before I started it for my kid. I really had no idea. Kumon is a Japanese method of learning the fundamentals of math and reading. It emphasizes repetition and accuracy and forces students do do the work within time constraints. So this isn't "new math" and it's not individualized instruction. Students come to Kumon and are often placed below grade level and are forced to work through the basics. I think this is a good idea, as it builds confidence, but I can also see how this could be a marketing/sales stroke of genius. If you start a fourth grader off doing second grade work you'll keep them longer, no? The students sit in a large open room, under watchful eye of the instructor/assistants and do worksheets. Very young children doing "Junior Kumon" are in a separate smaller room. Kumon is NOT personalized instruction. Kumon will NOT help your child with their homework. They have a method, they teach their method. I think that's fine for what it is, but it's not super clear initially. It is all about memorization of facts and rote memory which is NOT stressed in school these days. I'm old school...I like that for my kid. THE GOOD: The basics are stressed. A child will receive a foundation in math and reading that will only help them in a public or private school. The organization of the staff in North Andover is mind boggling. They have a system of check in and check out and homework/classwork tracking that is enviable. I really don't know how a worksheet never goes astray, but they don't. The Instructor, S. Donti is fastidious about work being done properly, and demands perfection with a quiet authority. I think she may have written tax code in a past life. But she knows her stuff. No one gets anything past Mrs. Donti and I LOVE that. THE BAD: The waiting room is small. Sometimes it takes over an hour, sometimes class takes 15 minutes. There is no way to know. THE UGLY: I think the tables could use a good wipe-downs in between students; with so many coming and going I think a lot of the germs my kid brought home this year were from Kumon. A little Lysol would go a long way in there. THE VERDICT: a couple of colds aren't enough to keep my kid out of this program. The work is solid, the Instructor knowledgeable, and my kid is building confidence I didn't know possible. I am thrilled with this program and would and do recommend it to friends. It's not the right fit for every student, but it's worth a shot...

The staff is very accommodating for scheduling and my daughter seems happy with their services. The…read morepricing is reasonable and the method works for her.

I am falling short of words to describe their poor and unbelievably unprofessional management…read more First they don't bother receiving phone calls; when I finally get through to confirm class availability, they assure me there is space after which I pay the $100 registration fee online. A week before classes are to commence, they call to inform me that they don't have space anymore, and when I ask them to refund registration fee, they say it's not refundable! I am still incredulous and trying to make sense of how they will bear no responsibility for their dysfunctional management, rather refuse to return the fee that *they* made me pay in the first place after falsely confirming availability. Unbelievable! Absolutely unbelievable!

This place was awful…read more Although RSM is a good idea and taught by relatively intelligent and understanding teachers, the language barrier makes effective communication almost impossible. Above this, there's an almost cultish air to the entire institute; the teachers are dead set on the beliefs that they have, and it leaks through in various lessons. Above this, a cutthroat environment is encouraged at RSM, where kids will be mocked for making mistakes - which I personally don't believe bothered my son more than the average of two-three hours of homework per week - at least. I've sent my son to three locations due to scheduling reasons, and he was in the program for three years until his constant begging to quit got to us. We instead got a private tutor, who he can firstly understand, but also stand learning with. In conclusion, I hope you find other schools to try first before finally resorting to RSM. Perhaps try Kumon, or private tutoring if you are capable of providing that.

We've been working with Signet and it's been a great experience so far. We've been working with Liz…read morefor test prep for the past few months and she's been fantastic with reviewing strategies and working through the subject areas with my high schooler. She's been patient and super helpful! We're also working on college prep and applications with January for many months now and she's been amazing. We're coming up against the most critical time and I'm glad that Signet has our back!

My husband and I participated in Signet's Parents College Admissions Bootcamp! (run by Sheila) and…read morewe are so glad we did. The classes were informative, engaging, and not overwhelming at all. Sheila taught us step-by-step, class-by-class what we needed to know, gave us homework assignments, and helped us talk to our stressed out kids about the process. Applying for colleges can be a stressful time and this program helped alleviate some of that stress. Thank you Sheila!

Echo Enrichment is a family oriented preschool that also offers social and education enrichment,…read moresummer camp, Friday night socials for kids (so parents can go out kid free) and special needs programs for teenagers one night a week. I moved to Burlington 2 years ago and heard about this place from time to time. My first experience with this fantastic facility was sending my 4 year old daughter to Science class there. Since that first time, she has taken more enrichment classes, had her birthday party there, attended summer camp along with my 2 special needs foster kids. My prior foster daughter attended the Saturday "night out" social (and loved it) and my 15 year old daughter has volunteered there for the past 2 summers. Maryanne (the owner and teacher) is fantastic with all the kids. She is always happy, calm and affectionate with the kids, offering them a fun unique learning experience with the comforts of home. Carlos, Maryanne's husband also works at Echo - he is a very warming and gentle man that all the kids love. He does more of the books and the meet and greet of parents but is always around offering a helping hand. Over the past year, I have noticed many parents pulling their kids out of public preschool and sending them to Echo. I've contemplated posting this because I still somewhat think of it as my kids special place that I can always take them to in a pinch with excitment.....without feeling bad. This is my 4 kids favorite place to go. My now 5 year old goes the most and generally jumps up and down, screaming in excitement when I tell her she is going. Echo has had a tremendous influence on her happiness and development.

My daughter and son have both attended this school and we've had a different experience with each…read morechild. My daughter who is your typical "cookie cutter student" and somewhat a quiet student did well, had a good experience and enjoyed the school because it was all about the social hour for her and making friends in a fun environment. The teacher did meet up with me one evening to tell me a concern regarding my daughter which by far was not a concern yet an opinion nor any of her business regarding my daughters love for dressing up for school. In the 2.5 years she was there however she only learned to somewhat write her name. My son was a completely different story. He attended the center for 2 years and does not know his alphabet nor can write his name. He has now been "let go" from the school due to the teacher stating he's be better off in a "smaller class size" as well as several other discussions of her opinions and observations regarding his behavior in which we've brought to the attention of his pediatrician, a kindergarten teacher, and a behavioral specialist all of which had agreed none of the described behavior had been concerning or unusual for that of a 4 year old BOY. Also coincidently, at the beginning of the year my email address somehow was not receiving the classes emails and I missed out on important dates such as "pajama day" and other fun days for the kids which lead me to drop off my son and run home to get his pajamas and run back to school so he wouldn't feel left out. We also had an issue in which my sons spot was taken on his scheduled day forcing me rearrange my work schedule to be able to accommodate my sons preschool schedule. (If you call this a preschool) Overall my most recent experience of this school is sadly negative. I'm still not sure if they are a daycare or a preschool because they'll claim to be both depending upon the situation the title is pertaining to. They play favoritism which I upsettingly have experienced and witnessed first hand. If you have a child that's is full of life, love and energy, then maybe this center is not for you!

I took the June LSAT and used the Manhattan resources extensively to help myself score a 177. The…read moreteachers were always timely, whether they were responding to questions posted in the extremely helpful online message boards, or meeting in person for tutoring. They all seemed very dedicated to their chosen profession and eager to help in any way possible. Personally, my greatest gain from Manhattan came from their clear and concise Logical Reasoning methodology. No fooling around with unnecessary classifications or anything like that, just telling you how to tackle the problems plainly and simply. They are serious about selecting and training their teachers, so the quality level is very high all around. I would definitely recommend Manhattan to a fellow LSAT prepper if they feel they would benefit from outside help during their studies.

Ray is exceptional. It was a great Boss and she has a great crew because she's a great boss in…read moreBurlington on Cambridge Street on the other hand not so good. both bosses and don't back not team don't have your back and most of the people that work. There are not happy, but everybody needs a children the parents are wonderful. It's the administration within the building that needs to be upgraded like I said Ray Avenue is exceptional for the employees in leadership. They have a great boss come to Cambridge Street like I said not so much no good reviews for that place. five stuff for Ray Avenue great boss great leader ship no Street horrible leadership.

My twins boys go to the KinderCare in Burlington. They always come home to show me a project that…read morethey have done or a craft that is hanging on the wall. I just entered my youngest daughter who is 4 months old and she is actually perfectly tended to when she gets home. They have chars on the walls to make sure that every baby has what they need at the right time. This is a wonderful place and I definitely recommend it!