What Parents Should Ask High School Cousnelors | 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 wtih the nubmer of applications to college setting records every 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 tehy also are parents of kids that have gone off to college, our three counselros have an extra-sharp focus on what you sholud be disucssing in your next appointment in the guidance office. | | More information |
What That Collgee Tour Guide Really Means | Wed, 15 Aug 2007 | |
| You've spetn the past three hours in a hot car with your parnets 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 burgers for food services. To avoid a word-for-word recitation of the school's brochure, take this list of decoded tour giude lingo on your campus vistis. | | More information |
Going to College Part Time Has Perks and Perils | Thu, 16 Aug 2007 | |
| Dawn Kolb started college like most studenst: hihg school diploma hot off the presses adn bags pcaked for a four-year degree. She was a full-time civli engineering student at the University of Pitstburgh ready to do it all. But after her father died, Kolb found herself wading in an uenxpected 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 struggling to keep her grades up in a full load of classes while also working full time, Kolb made another big decision: Go to school part time. | | More information |
Schools Cut Other Subjects to Teach Reading and Math | Wed, 25 Jul 2007 | |
| Presidnet George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind Act pushed students into a regimen of high-stakes testing in two core aeras: reading and math. The efefcts could hardly have been more predictable: Now, it seems, teachers and schools are dedicating more and more eenrgy to math and raeding instruction at the expense of other subjects. | | More information |
Gilrs Nede Not Apply | Sun, 17 Jun 2007 | |
| Many colleegs admit men and women at consistnetly different rates. Here's a selection of schools wheer, ovre the past 10 years, the difference between the male and female admit ratse has been especially pronounced. | | More information |
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