by Sarah Green | Jun 22, 2015 | Parent Issues, Student Issues
When teachers are asked what they wish parents would do to jump-start their young children before entering school, they almost universally have one answer: Get your kid reading. Now, we live in an era when ‘school’ commonly starts with early-admission...
by Sarah Green | Jun 18, 2015 | News
Between July 2014 and April 2015, Corinthian Colleges closed its over 100 campuses after a wave of bankruptcy and accreditation issues, leaving over 70,000 currently-enrolled students out of class, and over 350,000 current and former students still in debt for...
by Sarah Green | Jun 17, 2015 | News
The Yale School of Management debuted two new, multi-day executive education programs during this summer, training corporate leaders in both sustainability and behavioral economics. “The audiences for both new programs include Fortune 500 executives across industries,...
by Sarah Green | Jun 16, 2015 | News
Max Ventilla is not a product of the American public school system. His academic career is a path from private elementary school to boarding school to Yale, and he credits that early start in alternate education for his professional success. And he is successful....
by Sarah Green | Jun 13, 2015 | News
Emerson High School, in Oklahoma City, is a survivor. Built in 1911, just a few years after Oklahoma was granted statehood, the proud brick school survived both the Pei Plan of the 1960s that demolished many older structures in an urban revitalization project that...
by Sarah Green | Jun 11, 2015 | News, Student Issues
In Switzerland, a team of researchers is working on an education program called CoWriter, in which children help robots learn to write, and thus improve their own handwriting. The concept is simple: children are paired with a robot that wants to learn how to write a...
by Sarah Green | Jun 9, 2015 | News
Stanford’s Graduate School of Business (GSB) is one of the most prestigious graduate business schools in the country. They are located right outside of Palo Alto in California, in the Bay area south of San Francisco. The school is currently realizing an intriguing...
by Sarah Green | Jun 6, 2015 | News, Student Issues
On May 20th, 1800 students walked in the commencement ceremony for American River College’s class of 2015. Among them was Tanishq Abraham, beaming in his blue gown and mortarboard cap and a striped knit scarf. He would be taking home three associates degrees...
by Sarah Green | Jun 5, 2015 | News, Student Issues
The day she found out that she’d been accepted into a surgical residency at the University of California Riverside, Jennifer Chen got carded for her celebratory champagne toast. But she’s used to that. Chen, the youngest ever graduate from Florida...
by Sarah Green | May 29, 2015 | News, Student Issues
Suitably, the Little Free Library project started small. One man, Todd Boll, gave out a handful of little handcrafted wooden buildings, each about the size of a microwave, to his friends in 2009. Each one had a hand-painted sign advertising FREE BOOKS and that’s...
