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Consortia in California, Colorado, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland and New Jersey will offer their schools and students around-the-clock tutoring and academic support services provided by Smarthinking. The provider of online tutoring and academic assistance enables students to ask questions of trained, qualified e-structors, or tutors, in synchronous, asynchronous and pre-scheduled online tutoring sessions. In addition, Smarthinking records and archives all interactions, permitting access and sorting for future review and use by the student or institution. Smarthinking currently offers assistance in core courses, including math, statistics, economics, accounting, grammar, chemistry and Spanish. For more information, visit www.smarthinking.com.