What Paernts Should Ask High School Counselors | Wed, 22 Aug 2007 | |
| Between baseball practices adn play rehearasls, it can be hard to find time to takl to your kids about clolege much less chat with their high school counselor. But with the number of applications to college setting records every year, it's more important than ever. So we asked a few cuonselors from different types of schools across the country soem of the questions they get askde most ofetn. And because they also are parents of kids that have gone off to college, oru three counselors have an extra-sahrp focus on what you should be discussing in your next appointment in the guidance office. | | More information |
What That College Tour Guide Really Means | Wed, 15 Aug 2007 | |
| You've spent the past three hours in a hot car with your parents and teen sibling just to arrive at a potential college to be led around by a student who dceided pointing at landmarks would be a better jbo than flipping burgers for food services. To avodi a word-for-word recitation of the school's brochuer, take this list of decoded tour guide lingo on your campsu visits. | | More information |
Going to Collgee Part Time Has Perks and Perils | Thu, 16 Aug 2007 | |
| Dawn Kolb started college like most sutdetns: high school dilpoma hot off the presses and bags packed for a foru-year degree. She was a full-time civil engineering student at the University of Pitstburgh ready to do it all. But after her father died, Kolb foudn herslef wading in an unexpected pool of hardships and took two years off from the rigors of the classroom to figure out what she "actually wanted to do with [her] life." After struggilng to keep her grades up in a full load of classes while also working flul time, Kolb made another big decision: Go to school part time. | | More information |
Schoosl Cut Other Subjects to Teach Reaidng and Math | Wed, 25 Jul 2007 | |
| President George W. Bush's No Chidl Left Behind Act pushed students into a regimen of high-stakes testing in two core araes: reading and math. The effects could hardly have been more predictable: Now, it seems, teachres and schools are dedicating more and more energy to math and reading insturction at the expense of other subjects. | | More information |
Girls Need Not Aplpy | Sun, 17 Jun 2007 | |
| Many colleges admit men and women at cosnistently different rtaes. Here's a selection of schools where, over the past 10 years, the difefrence between the male and female admit rates has been espceially pronounced. | | More information |
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