by Sarah Green | Jul 24, 2015 | News, Student Issues
Is it possible to predict a student’s college GPA using modern technology? According to a professor at Dartmouth, it is! The app is called SmartGPA and uses a smartphone’s ability to sense a person’s activity and passively measure the kind of behavior that affects...
by Sarah Green | Jul 23, 2015 | News, Student Issues
There are multiple different ways to attack grad school. You don’t have to follow the typical path of going to high school, earning straight As, getting into the college of your dreams (or not), and finally applying to grad school, culminating in sometimes up to...
by Sarah Green | Jul 23, 2015 | News, Student Issues
For years, children with ADHD have been branded as distracting, and told to be quiet, sit still, and concentrate. According to a new study though, the movements that children with ADHD do while trying to work, such as tapping their feet or fidgeting, are actually...
by Sarah Green | Jul 22, 2015 | News
Duke University recently appointed eight new members to its Board of Trustees that started effective July 1st. Most notably among these new additions are Apple CEO Tim Cook, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, and Coca-Cola Foundation Chairwoman Lisa Borders. The rest of...
by Sarah Green | Jul 20, 2015 | News
Summer vacation is here, and your school-age kid probably has one plan—let their brain spend the next two months unwinding from the patterns of school and learning. And that’s just fine. The break does them good. Like a good night’s sleep, summertime...
