by Sarah Green | Jul 8, 2015 | News
Valerie Ashby recently began her time as the Dean of Arts and Sciences at Duke University’s Trinity College, as of July 1st. She comes highly recommended as a former professor and chair of the chemistry department at UNC Chapel Hill. She is also a Duke alum from both...
by Sarah Green | Jul 7, 2015 | Parent Issues, Student Issues
It’s easy to feel helpless when you find out that your child is being bullied at school. You probably remember a bully or two yourself, and the way no one else seemed to be there to help you out of that situation. But you can do better than that, and you can...
by Sarah Green | Jul 6, 2015 | News
Three million dollars is enough to send 120 students to college on full-ride scholarships with living allowances for a year, or to pay the full tuition of 330 for the same time. It’s a lot of money. And it’s the amount donated by an anonymous group to...
by Sarah Green | Jul 6, 2015 | News
California instituted standardized exit exams for all high school students in 2004, fully implementing the requirement in 2006. Prior to the California High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE), each school district had developed its own exit exams, known as the High School...
by Sarah Green | Jul 1, 2015 | News
Of course it’s challenging to even get into Harvard, but to get in and get one of the top honors awarded to students is even more impressive. To give you an idea, in the graduating class of spring 2014 for MBAs, only the top 5% earned the “high distinction” of...
by Sarah Green | Jun 30, 2015 | News
Non-profit GlassLab has been working with PopCap Games and researchers at Florida State University to help develop a more educational version of Plants Vs. Zombies 2 (PvZ2), one of PopCap’s many successful titles. Called Use Your Brainz, the new title doesn’t make any...
by Sarah Green | Jun 25, 2015 | News, Student Issues
A recent study from Université de Luxembourg in Switzerland reinforces the concern that boys are falling behind in school, but it also helps to explain some of the reasoning. For some time now, boys in the 13-15 year range have been outperformed by their female peers,...
by Sarah Green | Jun 24, 2015 | News
The University of Virginia (UVA) is known for providing a very strong undergraduate education, especially in the areas of business, foreign languages, and health sciences. With prominent alumni that includes Forbes’ Midas List member Anton Levy, former U.S. president...
by Sarah Green | Jun 23, 2015 | News, Student Issues
Looking for educational apps for your kids? A new study by the Association for Psychological Science can help. Since the iPad came out only five years ago, more than 80,000 “educational” apps have been developed, but they aren’t all created equally. Many aren’t even...
by Sarah Green | Jun 23, 2015 | News
This spring, an investigation by an online news source found that, in less than three years, Texas judges sent more than a thousand teenagers to jail – actual adult jail, not juvie – over charges stemming from classroom truancy. Most students were locked up because...
