Academic Approach
Dan Unangst possesses extensive experience in educational roles, primarily as a tutor and editor at Academic Approach since January 2009. Prior to this position, Dan served as a classroom instructor at Academic Tutoring Centers and worked as a tutor and essay grader at StudyPoint. Dan's teaching career began at Elite Educational Institute as an instructor. Earlier experience includes roles as a script reader for Robert Cort Productions and a development intern at Endgame Entertainment. Dan holds a Bachelor's degree in Radio/TV/Film from Northwestern University, attended from 1998 to 2002, and completed high school at Ann Arbor Huron High School from 1994 to 1998.
Academic Approach
The idea for Academic Approach was born 13 years ago at Columbia University in New York City. While earning a PhD in English and teaching college freshmen in Columbia's core curriculum, I was at the same time tutoring New York City high school students for the standardized tests. I noticed an evident gap between the level of readiness my highschool students exhibited and the academic standards they would be expected to live up to on the college level.It occurred to me that the most meaningful way to offer test preparation was to create an academic curriculum that bridged these two levels of education, high school and college. Such a curriculum would allow me to use standardized tests in an innovative way: as a means to produce both better high school test takers and better college freshmen. We refer to this essential academic mission as "Teaching Beyond the TestTM."