Tutoring service opens Bethesda location

 Located at 4800 Hampden Lane, Suite 200, in Bethesda, The Educational Connections' office provides Secondary School Admission Test administration, educational consultations, academic assessments, and workshops for parents and tutors. 

Educational Connections, Inc. sets high standards for the tutors it hires, who instruct K-12 students in the comfort of their own home in all subjects, reading remediation, and educational coaching. Eighty percent of Educational Connections' tutors have classroom teaching experience, 100 percent have earned bachelor's degrees, and 70 percent hold master's degrees.

 After fifteen years of teaching and tutoring—including teaching in Fairfax County Schools as both a general and special educator—Ann Dolin launched Educational Connections, Inc. in 1998 as its sole tutor to provide individualized one-to-one instruction based on each student's learning style and academic needs. Today Educational Connections Inc. contracts more than 100 tutors and has served more than 2,000 students in the Washington, D.C. area. Dolin is considered an expert in the field of special education, learning disabilities, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and general trends in education.  

Opinion research firm relocates to Kensington

Booms Research & Consulting, Inc., a polling and strategic communications firm, has relocated from Alexandria, Va., to Kensington.

Jason Booms, president & CEO of Booms Research & Consulting, has provided research services and communications counsel for corporations, trade associations and political campaigns since 1990.

Booms has served as a pollster and advisor for federal, state and local candidates and campaigns. Booms has also provided counsel for corporations and associations in the realms of public relations, advertising development and evaluation, public policy issue management, as well as positioning and branding.

Booms is a Democratic strategist. He founded Booms Research & Consulting, in part, to help Democratic candidates win elections. He has also provided on-air and on-line commentary from a progressive perspective.

A former Republican, he served as one of the National Leaders of the Republicans Vote Kerry/Edwards Initiative.

Booms was named a "Rising Star of Politics" by Campaigns & Elections magazine. He has been a commentator on a host of political and public policy issues since 1998, appearing on MSNBC, C-Span, CNBC, BBC and numerous radio talk show programs across the United States.

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Bethesda tutor

publishes math book

Daniel Eiblum, founder of Ivy League Tutoring Connection, a Bethesda tutoring agency, has authored a unique Math SAT book suited to high achieving math students who have already mastered the basics and wish to maximize their scores on the exam. The 425 exercises provide ample opportunity to practice only the most difficult problems found on the SAT. Chapters in this book were co-authored by mathematicians with advanced degrees. "MATH SAT 800: How to Master the Toughest Problems" is published by Booksurge.com, a subsidiary of Amazon.com.

Eiblum, a graduate of Charles W. Woodward High School and the University of Chicago, received his master's degree in education from Johns Hopkins University. He has more than 10 years of tutoring experience in mathematics, ranging from Algebra I through Calculus. In addition to tutoring in mathematics, Ivy League Tutoring Connection (ivyleaguetutoringconnection.com) helps kids one-on-one reach their potential in the basic elementary through high school curriculum, as well as study skills and test preparation.

More information about the book can be found on Amazon.com.

Chevy Chase resident named vice president of research firm

Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., recently announced the appointment of Josh Rozen, a resident of Chevy Chase, as vice president. Rozen, who joined Mathematica in 1988, has been director of Corporate Computing Services since 2003. He directs the information technology activities of Mathematica and its subsidiaries and is responsible for administrative and Web systems, as well as computer and network services for all corporate locations.

He has served in many capacities, including as a systems analyst and programmer for large-scale research projects, during his tenure with the firm. He has a B.S. in computer science from Pennsylvania State University.

Mathematica Policy Research strives to improve public well-being by conducting high-quality, objective research and surveys. A nonpartisan firm, its clients include federal and state governments, foundations, and private-sector and international organizations. The employee-owned company, with offices in Princeton, N.J., Washington, D.C., Cambridge, Mass., and Ann Arbor, Mich., has conducted some of the most important studies of education, health care, welfare, employment, nutrition, and early childhood policies and programs in the U.S.