Archive for July, 2007

From High School Jocks to College Grads

Title IX gets a boost. For her master’s thesis at Brigham Young, Kelly P. Troutman looked at 5,000 high school girls in the National Education Longitudinal Study and found that girls who play interscholastic high school sports are 41 percent more likely to graduate from college than their counterparts. The athletes had the advantage of [ READ MORE ]

Expensive Majors

The New York Times did a story on the growing trend of public universities charging higher tuition for degrees in lucrative fields such as business and engineering. This practice brings up many issues including price sensitivity for poor students who may stay away from majoring in business. Some worry that students who are charged more [ READ MORE ]

College Students Rob Bank For Tuition

It’s not that I’m condoning bank robbery (people tend to get hurt). Plus, you know, it’s wrong. But aside from the danger, the stupidity and the blatant law-breaking, there’s a tiny part of me that’s glad for this excellent illustration of how impossible tuition rates have become. Maybe we’ll all get lucky and the Powers [ READ MORE ]

College Student Study Tips

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place To Study Finding your perfect study place is crucial. Richard Klayman has an op-ed in the Christian Science Monitor about it. He teaches in Boston and has done informal research over the years, asking his students where they settle in to study and whether that spot is conducive to the learning [ READ MORE ]

Career Advice for New Grads РBest R̩sum̩ Advice Sites

Recent graduates who are now job hunting are probably inundated with advice from friends and family. Some of the classic advice: Get a haircut; buy interview clothes; tell everyone you’re looking for a job; get an internship; go on informational interviews. Other advice is geared toward protecting your online reputation: Google yourself to make sure [ READ MORE ]

It’s Confirmed, Alumni Give to Universities to Get Their Kids Admitted

This may not be earth shattering news, but in a recent article, Slate Magazine answered why alumni of prestigious universities make such large gifts to their already well funded alma maters. A new study by Jonathan Meer of Stanford and Harvey S. Rosen of Princeton shows strong evidence that over half of giving by alumni [ READ MORE ]

Memory, Technology and Learning

Technology Reverses the Smartness The Telegraph UK had this article about a study researching the effects of our detrimental reliance on tech gadgets for all the information we feel we need to remember. An over reliance on technology is leading to a dumbing down of the nation’s brain power, according a study published today Professor [ READ MORE ]

Student Loans, Financial Aid and Culinary School

Top Chef and the Food Network have fueled the rise of the celebrity chef and it’s been very good for cooking schools. Students are filling culinary schools are unprecedented rates. Professional training can help cooks move up quickly through the kitchen ranks. And culinary schools have produced many of the nation’s finest chefs. From All [ READ MORE ]

No Child Left Behind is Ruining Our Education System

Even The NEA Is Against It Standardized testing has always worked in my favor, but that doesn’t mean I support it. And I will be the first to call bull**** on the No Child Left Behind Act and how severely unhelpful it has been. FUBAR is probably the most thorough description of the NCLB model [ READ MORE ]

Virtual Interviews in Second Life

Technologically Advanced Ways To Screw Up An Interview Oh, Modern Technology. Sometimes you help, sometimes you hinder. And sometimes you make us look like dorks. The Wall Street Journal had this article about humans and how some of us may not be ready for virtual prime time. I think the WSJ was going for a [ READ MORE ]