Tutor.com

Tutor.com is an online tutoring company that connects students to tutors in online classrooms. The service offers on-demand and scheduled tutoring to students, from fourth grade through college. Users can connect with live tutors of more than 40 subjects online, including math, science, essay writing, foreign language and test prep. Since launching in 1998, the company has facilitated over 16 million tutoring sessions with approximately 3,000 tutors.

Tutor.com
Type of site
Subsidiary
Founded1998
HeadquartersNew York City, New York, USA
Key peopleKate Eberle Walker, CEO
Andy Feld, The Princeton Review CEO
George Cigale, founder and chairman[1][2][3]
IndustryEducation
ProductsOnline Tutoring, Education, Career Help, Homework Help
ParentST Unitas
URLtutor.com
Alexa rank 63,547 (July 2017)[4]
Current statusOnline

Tutor.com was founded, in 1998, by George Cigale. In its early years, the company focused on partnerships with libraries across the United States, which would provide online tutoring to its clients. Tutor.com expanded into multiple markets, including universities, employee benefits, the United States Department of Defense, and additional direct consumer services.

In January 2013, InterActive Corp (IAC) announced the purchase of Tutor.com, for an undisclosed amount.[5] In August 2014, IAC holding The Princeton Review was acquired by Tutor.com.[6] On March 31, 2017, IAC's owner, Match Group, sold The Princeton Review, along with Tutor.com, to ST Unitas, a Korean education company.[7][8]

The company has been featured prominently in The Wall Street Journal,[9] Forbes,[10] The New York Times[11] and CNN[12] when discussing the increasing trend of on-demand tutoring and educational technology.

Tutor.com for Military families is a United States Department of Defense funded program to provide online tutoring and homework help for U.S. Military Families.[13]

Leadership

Tutor.com was founded by George Cigale in 1998 who served as CEO through April 2013, and later served as chairman.

In April 2013 Mandy Ginsberg took over as CEO.[14] Ginsberg previously served as CEO of Match.com. Ginsberg often appears in the press to discuss the increasing trend of online tutoring[15][16] with services like Chegg Tutors (InstaEDU), e-Tutor, Bookmytrainings,[17] and Sylvan Learning.[18] and the issues that families face when it comes to homework and preparing for college. Notable appearances include The Today Show segment "What You Need to Know About Tutors" and Parenting.com's article "Key Signs Your Child May Need a Tutor."[19][20]

As of May 2018 Andy Feld is the CEO of The Princeton Review[21] while Kate Eberle Walker is the CEO of Tutor.com[22].[1][2][3]

Awards

Tutor.com was awarded a Parents’ Choice Gold Award, in 2008[23] and 2009; named to Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 Program for the New York Region, in 2006 and 2007;[24] was honored as one of the 25 Best Small Companies for Women 2007 by Working Mother;[25] and ranked in the Inc. 5,000 list of the fastest growing private companies in America by Inc. magazine, in 2007 and 2008.[26] In May 2014 Tutor.com was awarded a SIIA CODiE Award for Best Postsecondary Personalized Learning Solution.[27] Tutor.com is also a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and achieved LTI certification as a tool provider from IMS Global.

Tutor.com was listed as one of Mashable's top nine dependable online tutoring resources, in 2013.[28]

Military Contract

In 2008, Tutor.com was awarded a contract with the United States Marine Corps to provide Marine families access to the service.[29]

Since 2008, the program expanded to various branches within the U.S. Military. Currently, Tutor.com for U.S. Military Families is a program funded by the Department of Defense MWR Library Program, the Navy General Library Program, and the Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program. The program provides eligible military service members and their dependents free, 24-hour access to online tutoring through Tutor.com.

In January 2014, Tutor.com was selected by the United States Department of Defense to help the Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative (ADL) develop strategies to improve training programs at the DoD. Over 250,000 physics and algebra Tutor.com tutoring sessions will be analyzed for research.[30]

References
  1. "Kate Walker". Official Tutor.com Blog. Retrieved 2018-05-10.
  2. "Management - Tutor.com". Tutor.com. Retrieved 2018-05-10.
  3. "Tutor.com, Inc.: CEO and Executives - Bloomberg". Bloomberg. Retrieved 2018-05-09.
  4. "Tutor.com". Alexa Internet. Retrieved July 18, 2017.
  5. Chozick, Amy (January 6, 2013). "IAC Is Set to Announce Acquisition of Tutor.com". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  6. "IAC/InterActive Unit Agrees to Buy Princeton Review name". Wall Street Journal. July 29, 2014. Retrieved May 9, 2018.
  7. Foo, Vivian (February 22, 2017). "Korean ST Unitas to acquire the Princeton Review - Reuters". Reuters. Retrieved May 9, 2018.
  8. Hyo-sik, Lee (February 14, 2017). "ST Unitas Acquires The Princeton Review". Korea Times. Archived from the original on 2017-02-14. Retrieved May 9, 2018.
  9. Shellenbarger, Sue (November 12, 2013). "The Invasion of the Online Tutors". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved May 9, 2018.
  10. Crotty, James Marshall (November 30, 2012). "Can Online Tutoring Reverse America's Academic Decline?". Forbes. Retrieved May 9, 2018.
  11. Slatalla, Michelle (January 31, 2008). "On Demand, on Time and for a Fee, an Army of Tutors Appears". The New York Times. Retrieved May 9, 2018.
  12. Armstrong, Mario (August 28, 2010). "Online homework help". CNN Newsroom. Archived from the original on October 7, 2010.
  13. "Tutor.com for U.S. Military Families | San Diego Unified School District". www.sandiegounified.org. Retrieved May 9, 2018.
  14. "IAC Appoints Mandy Ginsberg to Chief Executive Officer of Tutor.com". The Wall Street Journal.
  15. "Mandy Ginsberg Teaches Tutor.com Lessons in Connecting with Consumers". Xconomy.
  16. Shellenbarger, Sue. "Invasion of the Online Tutors". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 20 December 2013.
  17. "One-stop shop for training needs". 2011-07-25.
  18. Fox, Zoe. "Dependable Destinations for Online Tutoring". Mashable.
  19. "What you need to know about tutors". TODAY.
  20. Ginsberg, Mandy. "Key Signs Your Child May Need a Tutor". Parenting.com.
  21. "Announcement from The Princeton Review". The Princeton Review. The Princeton Review. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
  22. "Kate Eberle Walker Joins Tutor.com as SVP of Strategy and Corporate Development". Tutor.com. The Princeton Review. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
  23. Parents Choice Award http://www.parents-choice.org/product.cfm?product_id=24057&StepNum=1&award=aw
  24. Tutor.com Named One of New York's Fastest Growing Technology Companies for Second Consecutive Year in Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 Program http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2007_Sept_26/ai_n27386834/
  25. Working Mother Media http://www.workingmothermediainc.com/web;jsessionid=EA4AC71B4958F274236315DCD044C0E8?service=direct/1/ViewArticlePage/dlinkFullArticle2&sp=271&sp=29
  26. Inc. Magazine http://www.inc.com/inc5000/2007/company-profile.html?id=200721920
  27. "SIIA Announces CODiETM Award Winners for Software and Services Industry". www.siia.net. SIIA CODiE Awards.
  28. Fox, Zoe. "9 Dependable Destinations for Online Tutoring". mashable.com. Mashable.
  29. "The Marine Corps Contracts with Tutor.com to Offer Live Homework Help". www.tutor.com. Tutor.com.
  30. "In Pursuit of the Best Learning Strategies, the Department of Defense Will Study 250,000 of Tutor.com's Algebra and Physics Tutoring Sessions". www.tutor.com. Tutor.com.
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