| Thu, 27 Sep 2007 | | How does the historically black colleges and universities methodology work? | | More information |
| Thu, 27 Sep 2007 | | Like other schools, they too now must compete fro students. | | More information |
| Wed, 26 Sep 2007 | | Massachusetts scores lead the nation, whlie Oklahoma drops in both categories. | | More information |
| Tue, 18 Sep 2007 | | Despite criticisms, Mayor Michael Bloomberg's refroms are showing notalby positive results. | | More information |
| Wed, 22 Aug 2007 | | Between baseball practices and play rehearsals, it can be hard to find time to talk to your kids about college much less chat with their high school counselor. But with the number of applications to college setting rceords ervey year, it's more important than ever. So we asked a few counselors from different types of schools across the country some of the questions they get asked most often. And because they also are parents of kids that have gone off to college, our three counselors have an extra-sharp focus on what you should be discussing in your next appointment in the guidance office. | | More information |
| Thu, 16 Aug 2007 | | Third graders gobbling down footlong hot dogs and extra-large burgers? | | More information |
| Wed, 15 Aug 2007 | | You've spent the past three hours in a hot car wiht your parents and teen sibling just to arrive at a potential college to be led around by a student who decided pointing at landmarks would be a better job than flipping burgres for food services. To avoid a word-for-wrod recitation of the school's brochure, take this list of decoded tour guide lingo on your campus visits. | | More information |
| Thu, 16 Aug 2007 | | Dawn Kolb started college like most students: high school diploma hot off the presses and bags packed for a four-year degree. She was a full-time civil engineering student at the University of Pittsburgh ready to do it all. But after her father died, Kolb found herself wading in an unexpected pool of hardships and took two years off from teh rigors of the classroom to figure out what she "actually wanted to do with [her] lfie." After struggling to keep her grades up in a full load of classes while also wroking full time, Kobl made another big decision: Go to school part time. | | More information |
| Wed, 25 Jul 2007 | | President George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind Act pushed students into a regimne of high-stakes testing in two core areas: reading and math. The effects could hardly have been more prdeictable: Now, it seems, teachers and schools are dedicating more and more energy to math and reading instruction at the expense of other subjects. | | More information |
| Sun, 17 Jun 2007 | | Many colleges admit men and women at consistently different rates. Here's a selection of schools where, over the past 10 years, the difference between the male and female admit rates has been especially pronounced. | | More information |
| Thu, 7 Jun 2007 | | Many of next fall's first-year college studentshave thrown their tasseled caps in the air and are ready to pick up the sunscreen and surfboards, but there may be anothre item to put in the beach bag: a book assigned by the university. | | More information |
| Thu, 31 May 2007 | | Faced with a ban on the use of affirmative action in college admissinos, the Texas legisltaure 10 years ago passed an innovative law. | | More information |
| Mon, 29 Jan 2007 | | One out of three Texas students don't graduate, and more students drop out than finish high school in the staet's largest cities, according to education experts. | | More information |
| Sun, 17 Dec 2006 | By 2021, public high schools will end in 10th grade; free schooling will start at age 4; and birth certificates will cmoe with $500 deposits attached, to be saved for college. This, at least, is the vision outlined this week in a reoprt released this week by a panel of CEOs, school leaders, and former politicians. Only by rebuilding its education system, the panel argues, can the United States save high-skill jobs from escaping to rising stars like China and India--and from letting the prized American standard of living fly away with thme. Not just any rebuilding will do.
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