How To Ace Your College Interview

How To Ace Your College Interview

The college application process is becoming increasingly more sophisticated. For years, it was all about numbers. Colleges only looked at students’ SAT/ACT scores and high school grades. Then, colleges started taking more interest in who their students are. So, they started considering application essays, extra-curricular activities, and community service involvement. But, some elite colleges took their admissions even further by interviewing potential students. The interview has now become an integral part of the admissions process. Every college has a different interview structure, but most interviews will last between 30 and 60 min ... Read More About How To Ace Your College Interview

How Students Can Become National Bloggers

How Students Can Become National Bloggers

How cool would it be if you could start your college application essay with: “I’m a nationally published writer”? That is possible, and it would definitely wake up whoever is reading your application essay. The Huffington Post and the Patch (a network of over 800 hyper-local news sites), both owned by AOL, are currently recruiting bloggers (age minimum is 13). Right now, you can easily become a blogger and actually publish articles on the Patch’s website, which is read primarily by local audiences. The content provider has about 800 full-time writers, and it has asked all of them to recruit at least 10 writers each f ... Read More About How Students Can Become National Bloggers

How To Stop Cheating In Test Grading

How To Stop Cheating In Test Grading

Teachers have tried many tactics to stop their students from cheating. But, it was the teachers themselves who got caught cheating in 2011. They were erasing and changing their students’ answers on achievement tests to make themselves look better, according to an article in the New York Times. In recent years, the government has made the achievement or proficiency tests the cornerstone of its education debate. It uses these tests to measure students’ achievement, comparing them to students in foreign countries and past students. The government then blamed teachers for their students’ poor performance on these tests, and it ... Read More About How To Stop Cheating In Test Grading

Why A General Education

Why A General Education

Every college student is forced or encouraged to take a bunch of general education classes that are unrelated to his/her major. There are administrators on both side of the argument, lobbying for their case, according to an article in the Washington Post. One group, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, has been compiling research to argue for its case. It found that many colleges require three or fewer of the basic subjects, such as math, science, foreign language, composition, the fundaments of U.S. history, economics, literature, composition, etc. The group analyzed 1,007 colleges and found that three fifths of those schools do not ... Read More About Why A General Education

Why Schools May Shorten Their School Years

Why Schools May Shorten Their School Years

Budget cuts are getting so strict that some school districts are shaving days off the school year and making school weeks only four days (instead of five), according to an article in the New York Times. It’s a child’s dream, and an educator’s nightmare. The American education system is torn between desperately trying to improve its quality and harsh budget cuts. It’s nearly impossible to find a middle ground. One side will have to cave. Just about everyone in education agrees that taking kids out of the classroom could not possibly improve education. But, strict budget cuts are forcing administrators to d ... Read More About Why Schools May Shorten Their School Years