Personal Training for Intellectual Maturity

American high school students can pass a multiple choice test and cram for the next test, but too many cannot write a coherent essay, discuss current events, quote a poem, locate the Black Sea on a map, enjoy a novel, or recognize propaganda.  In short, many graduates have a diploma, but lack an education.

BrainBuilders Mentors function like personal trainers, strengthening a high school student’s educational "muscles" with a new take on an old-school model: individual educational mentoring that takes a student from the uncertainty of freshman year to the intelligent confidence of graduation. During the weekly one-hour sessions, BrainBuilders Mentors guide their students through a workout of 12 mental skills and abilities to increase strength and agility for the game of school . . . and life.