Tutor.com, Leader in Educational Market, Acquired by IAC

Jan. 7, 2013 - PRLog -- Sandhill Consulting Group congratulates its client Tutor.com on completing its acquisition by IAC/InterActiveCorp.

Beginning in its early phases, Sandhill worked alongside George Cigale, Founder and CEO, of Tutor.com as it navigated its early growth spurt and ultimately became the force for positive good that has resulted in today’s announcement. “Sandhill Consulting Group is pleased to have served as an advisor to Tutor.com.  Sandhill’s David Rust, a leader in educational marketing, served as the lead partner and worked on the Tutor.com program” according to Nick Clementi, Managing Partner of Sandhill and a Managing Director of the Peakstone Group.

Read on below for more information, or read the article in the NY Times http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/06/iac-is-set-to-announce-acquisition-of-tutor-com/?src=busln

Today it was announced that IAC/InterActiveCorp (http://www.iac.com/) has acquired Tutor.com. IAC owns more than 50 successful Internet businesses, including Newsweek, Ask.com, About.com, Match.com and Dictionary.com. As an IAC company, Tutor.com will have the opportunity to innovate and meet customers’ needs, while maintaining its devotion to the highest quality learning for the students .

Tutor.com has over 2,500 experienced tutors, professional teaching coaches, and credentialed librarians who work from all over North America. Its tutoring, homework help, reference, career and professional development services are offered through colleges and universities, public libraries, public school districts, virtual and charter schools, corporations and the U.S. Department of Defense.

In 2012 Tutor.com completed over 1.3 million one-to-one learning sessions and served about a half million hours of personalized learning.

Tutor.com reports students who failed seventh grade algebra took it for the second time with Tutor.com (http://www.tutor.com/schools) and earned the highest grade in the class; students in the Red Clay School District earned almost a full point higher (http://www.tutor.com/cmspublicfiles/WWW/Red_Clay_Case_Stu...) on their AP exams when using Tutor.com. Older students returning to college passed their challenging writing courses and had the confidence to stay in school; and thousands of middle school and high school students with military parents (http://www.tutor.com/military) deployed overseas had one less thing to worry about by connecting to Tutor.com for help 24/7.