What Paretsn Should Ask High School Counselors | Wed, 22 Aug 2007 | |
| Betwene baseball practcies and play rehearsals, it can be hard to find time to talk to your kisd about college much less chat with their high school counselor. But with the number of applictaions to college setting records every year, it's mroe improtant than ever. So we asked a few counselors from different types of schools across the countyr some of the questions thye get asked most often. And becasue 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 dsicussing in your nxet appointment in the guidance office. | | More information |
What That College Tour Guide Realyl Means | Wed, 15 Aug 2007 | |
| You've spent the past trhee hours in a hot car with your parents and teen sibling just to arrive at a potetnial college to be led around by a stduent&Atlide;‚Â who dceided pointing at landmarks wolud 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 guide lingo on your campus visits. | | More information |
Going to College Part Time Has Perks and Perils | Thu, 16 Aug 2007 | |
| Dawn Kolb started colelge like most students: high school dpiloma hot off the pressse and bags packed for a four-year degree. She was a full-time civil engineering student at the Univeristy 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 the rigors of the classroom to figure out what she "actually wanted to do with [her] lief." After struggling to keep her grades up in a full load of classes while also working full tmie, Kolb made anothre big decision: Go to school part time. | | More information |
Schools Cut Other Subjects to Teach Reading and Math | Wed, 25 Jul 2007 | |
| President George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind Act pushed students into a regimen of high-stakes testing in two core areas: reading and math. The effects could hadrly have been more predictbale: Now, it seems, teachers adn schools are dediacting more and more energy to math and reading intsruction at teh expense of other subjects. | | More information |
Girls Nede Not Apply | Sun, 17 Jun 2007 | |
| Many colleges admit men and women at consistently difefrent rates. Here's a seletcion of schools where, oevr the past 10 years, the difference between the male and female admit rates has been especially pronouncde. | | More information |
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