by Sarah Green | Aug 10, 2015 | News, Student Issues
The Harvard Business School (HBS) has one of the nation’s most highly-rated MBA programs. Naturally, it has turned into what one might call a factory of important personalities. If you want to be a powerful executive, billionaire, or US President, attending Harvard...
by Sarah Green | Aug 8, 2015 | News, Student Issues
A pastor was asked once how long it would take him to write a sermon. That depended, he said, on how long the sermon was to be. To write an hour-long sermon, he’d need two hours. To write a half-hour sermon, he’d need all day. And to write a five minute...
by Sarah Green | Aug 7, 2015 | News
Our schools are not set up to teach us to fail correctly. What may seem like an oxymoron is actually an incredibly important skill. We will fail. All of us. Every student and every adult, in big ways and small, all our lives. It is important, therefore, to take as...
by Sarah Green | Aug 5, 2015 | News
For many students, a science fair project is a landmark assignment in the landscape of homework. Usually striking sometime between fifth and ninth grade, it’s one of the first truly large projects faced by students. Most science fairs consist of three components...
by Sarah Green | Aug 5, 2015 | News
More big news out of Duke University: the school plans to invest $100 million in a new center for the study of Engineering and Physics. The 85,000-square-foot facility is scheduled to open in 2018, creating a state-of-the-art space where Engineering and Physics...
by Sarah Green | Aug 4, 2015 | News, Student Issues
The ability to ask questions is a vital part of a child’s education. But it’s not a skill that’s well taught, and not one taught early enough. It’s also painfully easy to discourage a child from asking at all. Over-strict teachers who dislike...
by Sarah Green | Aug 3, 2015 | News, Teacher Issues
One of the largest defining differences between the countries popularly called ‘industrial’ or ‘modern’ and those called ‘developing’ is education. Most governments worldwide provide universal primary education, but the existence of...
by Sarah Green | Jul 29, 2015 | News
In the 1990s, crime rates dropped significantly, but media coverage of violent crime increased. As shootings, terrorism, and school violence appeared more and more in the news, people began to demand increased vigilance from teachers and administrators. The result was...
by Sarah Green | Jul 24, 2015 | News
Educating people about personal well-being is important, especially for those who are studying to work at an incredibly demanding or stressful job. With that in mind, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Business Center for Professional and Executive...
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...
