“We feel so lucky to have found James Mendelsohn. His constant support and feedback and his interaction with teachers allowed me to be a parent and for my son to grow in the areas where he is truly talented.” —a Beacon High School parent

Qualifications & Experience

JRM Tutoring is made up of James Mendelsohn and a selection of tutors whom he supervises on each case. Its students have ranged in age from nine-year olds to doctoral students with the bulk of them in the middle-school through undergraduate years.

Dr. Mendelsohn’s experience includes more than 25 years in education, tutoring and teaching students, ranging from gifted high school students in the inner city of St. Louis to Columbia and New York University Ph.D. candidates. He holds a B.A. in English from Amherst College and a Ph.D. in English and American literature from Washington University in St. Louis. He has been a professor of English, American Studies, and composition, and he has held appointments at Harvard University, MIT, Boston University, and three universities in Europe while a Fulbright professor in American Studies. He has also been a high school English teacher at the Dalton School.

All other tutors at JRM Tutoring are highly educated and experienced in both their subject areas and individualized instruction.

A partial list of schools which JRM Tutoring clients have attended includes,

Schools

Beacon High School

Birch Wathen Lenox

Brearley

Calhoun School

Chapin

Collegiate School

Columbia Grammar

Dalton

Ethical Culture-Fieldston

Hewitt

Little Red Schoolhouse Elisabeth Irwin

Marymount

Packer Collegiate

PS 334 (The Anderson School)

Ramaz

Riverdale

Rodeph Sholom

Rosanne’s Son’s School

Sacred Heart

Saint Ann’s School

Stuyvesant

Trevor Day

United Nations International School

Universities and Colleges

New York University

Columbia University

Rochester Institute of Technology