For Immediate Release 9/21/04

Wilmington, Delaware -- This fall, Back to Basics Learning Dynamics, Inc., the tri-state area’s undisputed leader in one-on-one tutoring, homeschooling, ESL instruction, and district contract accounts, celebrates 19 years serving the varied educational needs of children through adults. The firm offers educational instruction to over 5,800 students in Delaware, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.

Founded in 1985, Back to Basics has set the pace in education through the unique concept of individualized, one-on-one tutoring geared toward each student’s learning style, pace, and needs. This individualized attention creates ongoing relationships between tutors and students.

Company founder and director Beverly Stewart, M.Ed. also realized from the start the need for tutors to make themselves easily available to students. So at the firm’s founding, she instituted another distinctive policy: sending tutors to a student’s home, office, or daycare with hours available seven days a week. No other area company travels to as many varied locations, or offers such a range of choices, even now 19 years later.

This individualized approach and freedom of choice has resonated well with parents anxious to help their children succeed, as well as with adults who seek to make themselves more marketable in today’s competitive workplace. As Back to Basics has grown, dozens of subjects have been added. Today, the firm offers instruction in 50+ subjects by over 120 professional, degreed instructors.

The firm’s steady growth has attracted both local and national attention. Back to Basics was named one of the 1991 “Top 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies” by the Philadelphia Business Journal. The company's growth and distinctive teaching philosophy were featured nationally in Entrepreneur magazine, and their state-approved homeschooling program was highlighted in a recent article by the New York Times. In addition, Stewart’s story was the topic of a full chapter in the book The Educational Entrepreneur: Making a Difference and has been the subject of an August 2004 article in Consumer’s Digest.

Stewart, herself, has been featured in numerous national publications, on radio and television, and is frequently quoted as an expert for both business and educational articles. She is also frequently engaged as a motivational speaker on a variety of topics including education, tutoring, and business. Stewart is the winner of the “Delaware Entrepreneurial Woman of the Year Award” 1998, the “She Knows Where She’s Going Award” 2001, the University of Delaware College of Human Services, Education and Public Policy “Outstanding Alumni Award” 2002, the Debnam House “Mentor Award” 2002, top-three finalist for the 2003 national "James P. Boyle Award" for educational entrepreneurs, and the Small Business Administration’s Small Businessperson of the Year Award 2004.