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Friday, January 13th, 2012A recent Education Week blog post describes an emerging trend that uses the talents and interests of their students’ parents. The post acknowledges that today’s college students are the children of parents who have been continuously focused and involved in every aspect of their children’s lives and educations; they have used all of their resources [...]
Young Women Leave the Workforce to Increase Education
Wednesday, January 4th, 2012Huffington Post reporter, Catherine Rampell, reports that part of the reason for November’s lower unemployment rate is the shrinking labor force. Economists realize that some of those work force dropouts are young people who are upgrading their skills. For the first time in 30 years, there are more young women in school than in the [...]
Free Online Courses at M.I.T. Expand to Offer Certification
Wednesday, December 28th, 2011Tamar Lewin, writer for The New York Times, penned an article about the planned expansion of online courses at one of America’s most elite universities. A leader in the era of online learning ten years ago, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will offer courses free of charge to anyone anywhere, and it will give official [...]
Academic Discrimination at Top Colleges?
Friday, December 16th, 2011A recent post on the Huffington Post’s education blog, “Some Asian Students Don’t Identify as Asian for College Admissions” describes the common practice by many students of Asian descent to decline to indicate their Asian ethnicity on their college applications. That’s because “for many years, many Asian Americans have been convinced that it’s harder for [...]
Losing Science Majors
Friday, December 9th, 2011With all the effort given these days to promote STEM (Science Technology Engineering, and Mathematics) learning among America’s students, it is quite troubling that a recent New York Times article on its website “Science Majors Change Their Minds (It’s Just So Darn Hard)” by Christopher Drew points out that about 40% of science and engineering [...]
Middle School, Time to Plan the Future
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011Armed with research findings, school officials in Mississippi have begun a new initiative for its eighth graders called Pathways to Success. Nora Fleming’s Education Week article, “Middle Schoolers Getting Prepped for College,” describes an emerging trend based on mounting evidence that “college- and career-readiness programs targeted at middle schoolers” cannot just help students to determine [...]
The GED Is Getting an Overhaul
Friday, November 18th, 2011There are all kinds of reasons that a high school student might not have graduated: repeated failure, troubled home life, the impatience to make some money, apathy, etc. No matter what the reason, many high school dropouts wake up and realize that they need to get that diploma, so many of them work to get [...]
Many High School Graduates Start College Behind
Wednesday, November 9th, 2011One of the reasons for the popularity of state-mandated tests is to determine the effectiveness of instruction in any given state. Additionally, legislators use graduation rates as another marker for a satisfactorily performing school. That’s why New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg “has made the rising graduation rate – to 61 percent in June, from [...]
A More Effective Way to Study
Friday, November 4th, 2011An article, “Make Study More Effective, the Easy Way,” on the Mind Hacks blog suggests that even though there is ample research that shows that college students can follow a better study model that is easier than what is typically done now by most college students. The major reason that students still study in less [...]
What Is the Real Value in Extra-Curricular Activities?
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011Not so long ago, high school students were encouraged to be well-rounded students with emphasis on showing that they were good students who developed their social skills through participation on sports teams, musical groups, clubs, etc. With all the budget adjustments that school systems have been making, the extra-curricular activities have been among the casualties. [...]
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