Founder and CEO of Tutor.com Joins Johns Hopkins University School of Education
National Advisory Council
NEW YORK – November 5, 2009 - Tutor.com
(www.tutor.com), the largest online tutoring service, announced today that the company’s
founder and CEO George Cigale accepted
an invitation to join the Johns Hopkins University
School of Education National Advisory Council. The national council focuses
on national and international education issues, including innovative interdisciplinary
initiatives and cutting edge technologies that promise to change teaching and learning.
Mr. Cigale brings twenty years of education technology experience to the council,
which includes university trustees, business leaders and educators.
“I am honored to work with such a prestigious institution with a long history of
making an impact in how we prepare our teachers and educate our children,” said
Cigale. “Johns Hopkins University School of Education plays an important role in
driving education reforms and the National Advisory Council will provide strategic
thinking around how tomorrow’s education system and its leaders need to innovate
to best serve our country’s most important resource – our students.”
Mr. Cigale frequently speaks to business leaders, investors and educators about
education technologies and tools that schools may adopt to truly transform our nation’s
classrooms and our students’ out-of-school time to empower young people to be more
fully engaged in learning.
Most of Mr. Cigale’s career has been focused on helping students achieve academic
success – from paying his way through college by tutoring students for the SATs
to developing new software programs for The Princeton Review. Over a decade ago,
Mr. Cigale founded Tutor.com and launched one of the first online tutoring services
where a student could connect to a tutor for a one-to-one educational experience
in core academic subjects whenever they need help. Tutor.com’s award-winning tutoring
service is now available through thousands of public and virtual schools, public
libraries and private corporations. The service is also available to U.S. Marine
Corps and U.S. Army families.
Mr. Cigale is also a board member of the Poet’s House and the Software and Information
Industry Association (SIIA) Education Division.
About Tutor.com
Tutor.com is an award-winning online homework help and learning service that connects
students to a certified tutor for one-to-one help. Our network of over 2,000 expert
tutors has conducted over 4.5 million sessions in math, science, social studies
and English. Tutor.com is honored to be an American Association of School Administrators
partner and has been awarded the Parent’s Choice Gold Award in 2008 and 2009. To
learn more about Tutor.com services please visit www.tutor.com
or call 1-800-411-1970. Follow Tutor.com on
Twitter or blog.tutor.com. To learn
more about Mr. Cigale and see a list of his speaking engagements please visit his
blog.
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For More Information: Jennifer Kohn, Tutor.com at jkohn@tutor.com
or 212.528.3101 ext 228