NextGuru.com Helps Parents Take Education Back Into Their Own Hands

June 20, 2011 - PRLog -- With diminishing school budgets, the need for affordable private tutors and instructors has exploded and NextGuru.com is expanding to meet that demand. NextGuru.com launched last year in Southern California to provide a free online platform for parents & students to connect with tutors & teachers. Their offering is unlike anything else in the industry. The website is a free, unbiased resource where all teachers can post their credentials and all parents/students can freely search, ask questions and choose a teacher in a safe, privacy-protected environment. Demand was so great that the company expanded across the state of California just this past April.

California school districts have been forced to increase class size and cut long-standing programs like music, physical education, reading specialists, and individualized learning.  More and more, parents have been faced with supplementing their children’s education with private tutoring, music lessons, art classes, sports and more. Private instruction, once a privilege of the wealthy, has almost become a necessity of the masses. Unfortunately, most of today’s options are out of reach for the average family. Tutoring centers often require thousands of dollars up front; music studios and athletic clubs come with costly overhead and teaching fees. How does a family find a regular independent private teacher who teaches at the library, out of a home, or at the local park?

NextGuru.com has completely revolutionized how to find the independent, private instructor.  There is finally someplace to go besides your neighbor’s cousin… someplace easier and safer than classified ads... At NextGuru.com, families are empowered to search, review and choose from hundreds of tutors in their local area. All this is done in a privacy-protected environment with 21st-century search capabilities. There are no listing fees and no search fees – it’s all about seamlessly connecting students with teachers.

Says Chief Mom Officer Jenny Chang, “I have always been frustrated with how hard it is to find affordable private music teachers and tutors.  At NextGuru.com, we are on a mission to empower parents and students in that search process and to create a reliable space for teachers to market their services.” This mission clearly resonates with others. Since the April website redesign and California expansion, hundreds of tutors have created teaching profiles, hundreds of students have visited the site, and messages are exchanged every day. So, if you are looking for a private tutor, music teacher or coach, peruse the pages of http://www.nextguru.com and who knows?  Your next guru may be right there waiting for you…

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About NextGuru.com:
NextGuru.com started in Southern California in 2010 as an efficient online platform to connect students with private tutors, music teachers and coaches. In April, 2011, the company launched a redesigned website and expanded services across California. The website empowers parents and students to search, review and choose a private instructor in a privacy-protected environment. With over 2000 registered teachers, NextGuru.com currently operates in the state of California.