College Preparation and Advice
« Previous EntriesDeciding Which College to Attend
Tuesday, April 24th, 2012Since most colleges want a decision from accepted incoming freshmen by May 1, the month of April often is filled with much anxiety and stress. Caralee Adams’ recent post, “Countdown to May 1: Advice on Making the Final College Choice,” on the College Bound blog on the Education Week website provides some useful things to [...]
Rules for a Campus Revisit
Wednesday, April 11th, 2012Education Week’s Caralee Adams posts an article, “What to Look for When Revisiting a College Campus This Month,” on their College Bound blog suggestions about if and when a student might want to revisit a college campus. Adams contends that there is more than one college that is a good fit for a student, and [...]
Helping College Students Graduate on Time
Friday, March 2nd, 2012Almost everyone would agree that having your child graduate from college probably improves his or her chances for a good career, and graduating on time or early is beneficial to parents and their children in many ways. That’s why a 14-member task force from the University of Texas at Austin met for more than six [...]
Lack of Research Skills in High Schools Cause Problems in College
Saturday, February 25th, 2012A bastion of the high school experience has fallen by the wayside in some school districts. Students are not being required to write a research paper during their high school years. Tara Malone, reporter for The Chicago Tribune writes that many teachers are requiring shorter papers and allowing students to present research findings in presentations. [...]
Some College Students Struggle Because of Undetected Reading Difficulties
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012A recent article on the Science Daily website was particularly interesting because most of us know of a promising student who struggled with or dropped out of college. Many times, it was not the result of too much partying either. A University of Alberta researcher suggests that “it is likely that some of these students [...]
Slacking Seniors Invite Unwelcome Surprise
Friday, February 10th, 2012Martha C. Merrill, dean of admission and financial aid at Connecticut College, recently penned a blog post “A Dean’s Advice to Seniors: Don’t Slack Off” on the New York Times blog, The Choice. Merrill offers advice for high seniors for their last semester of high school. Remember that colleges expect the same level of performance [...]
Colleges Welcome Parent Groups
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 [...]
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