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Fast Company
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Registered Rep.
January 23, 2015
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Five Secrets Colleges Are Keeping From You While universities may lure students with fancy brochures, luxury housing and scenic architecture, the reality is that colleges are high-stakes businesses preoccupied with enhancing their own prestige. |
BusinessWeek
July 15, 2010 |
Bill Gates' School Crusade Bill Gates' foundation is betting billions that a business approach can work wonders in the classroom. |
Reason
June 2005
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How Schools Cheat From underreporting violence to inflating graduation rates to fudging test scores, educators are lying to the American public. |
Registered Rep.
February 19, 2013
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Majoring in Employment One of the top reasons students attend college is to get a good job. But just how much will schools help in the job search? |
Registered Rep.
September 27, 2010
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
College In Four Years, Not Six Before a teenager falls in love with any colleges be sure to check their graduation rates. It could save your clients tens of thousands of dollars. |
Mother Jones
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Recruiting the Class of 2005 Military programs have expanded into thousands of public high schools, signing up nearly half a million students. Is Junior ROTC building character -- or lining up soldiers? |
Financial Advisor
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College Crunch Advisors should start asking clients where their kids may want to attend college when the kids are high school freshmen or even in middle school, says Mazareas. There's a lot to talk about. |
BusinessWeek
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Bill Gates Gets Schooled Why Bill Gates and other execs have struggled in their school reform efforts, and why they keep trying. |
Registered Rep.
August 26, 2013
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School's (Not) Out Parents often assume that their children are going to finish their degrees in four years. Most of the time, it doesn't happen. |
Salon.com
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Tuition-free, back-to-basics, inner-city private schools The new St. Louis Academies seem almost too good to be true. But their founders insist that failure is not an option... |
T.H.E. Journal
October 29, 2009
David Nagel |
Q&A: iNACOL's Susan Patrick on Trends in eLearning At last count, there were more than 1 million enrollments in K-12 online schools in the United States. |
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Credit Recovery Software: the New Summer School Districts are using online programs to get at-risk students back on track to graduation. |
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Exodus Teachers are leaving Catholic schools for better pay in public classrooms---but with heavy hearts.... |
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The Evolution of the MBA What business schools are doing to better prepare your future employees. |
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The Reform Of School Reform Business is replacing the old piecemeal approach with ambitious efforts to revamp education on a far larger scale. |
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The Homeless at College For-profit schools are tapping shelters and halfway houses for new students, loading them with debt and leaving taxpayers on the hook. |
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Financial Planning Education 101: 10 Standout Schools A closer look at ten notable schools for with financial planning programs. |
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School Days Should for-profit companies run public schools? An entrepreneur and a principal weigh in. |
T.H.E. Journal
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February 2012
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IVR Identifies At-Risk Students Vocantas IVR helps Avila University reach out to students in danger of transferring or dropping out. |
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Which Came First - The Technology or the Pedagogy? A new spin on an old riddle goes to the heart of a conflict between K-12 schools and the colleges of education responsible for cultivating and providing them with new teachers. |
Registered Rep.
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Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
The Risks of Independence When parents realize that they haven't saved nearly enough money for college, some of them start wondering how their college-bound teenagers could qualify as independent students. |
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It's All in the Preparation Three different technical tools for college entrance exam preparation. |
Registered Rep.
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Jennifer Demski |
Winning Back Homeschoolers With the defection of local families causing a steep dip in enrollment, a rural Ohio district goes virtual to stem the tide. |
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Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
How College Rankings Influence Scholarship Awards For your affluent clients, it's the schools that don't possess the marquee names that will be eager to award their children scholarships. The author's book, The College Solution: A Guide to Everyone Looking for the Right School at the Right Price explains more. |
Teacher Magazine
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In Jerry We Trust The biggest test of Brown's leadership may lie ahead. |
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The Gates Effect The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation wants to fix American high schools. Is it laying its enormous bets in the right places? |
Entrepreneur
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Top Honors Business school students give a shout out to their schools. The Princeton Review's Student Opinion Honors for business schools. |
CIO
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How to attract Next-Gen IT Workers CIOs use partnerships with colleges, middle schools and private programs to attract and shape youth for IT careers. |
Registered Rep.
December 17, 2012
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
College Admissions Fever The college admissions process can drive teens and their parents crazy this time of year. Here are some statistics to get clients of college-bound kids to simmer down. |
Registered Rep.
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Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
College at a Discount Next year, a Minnesota-based university will cut its tuition by 33 percent for all its students. Others will likely follow. |
T.H.E. Journal
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College Panic Many of your clients with teenage children may be feeling the college panic about now. They are looking at diminished net worths and an uncertain job market and economy |
Registered Rep.
February 23, 2015
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Helping Parents Deal with College Stress The number of parents who express concern about getting their kids into college is almost as many as those who worry about paying the tab. |
Registered Rep.
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Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Value Investing for College Several schools recently dubbed the best value by Kiplinger's also charge the highest net prices in the nation. Shame. |
The Motley Fool
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Rich Smith |
Why Does College Cost So Much? The answer is simpler than you think. The government can improve access to higher education and reduce the price of it (not the cost, mind you, but the price students pay directly) by increasing financial aid. |
Reason
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Schoolhouse Crock Why George W. Bush's education reforms won't change anything... |
Fast Company
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Schools That Think Everyone agrees: Education is essential for the future of the new economy. Everyone agrees: The public education system needs reform. No one agrees on how to do it. Here are four models for the future. |
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The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology With 50 million public school students in America, technology holds much potential to transform schools, says John Jong-Hyun Kim. So why isn't it happening? |
The Motley Fool
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Shame of a Nation A New York Times article ironically shows how far we still have to go. |
Registered Rep.
August 20, 2012
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
When Dream Schools Become a Nightmare Many parents will go to great lengths to send to their children to their dream schools, but it's not always the best financial decision. |
T.H.E. Journal
September 9, 2009
Jennifer Demski |
Learning to Speak Math The presence of a bilingual educator is proving pivotal to the success of technology initiatives aimed at developing Spanish-speaking students' grasp of both the concepts and the language of mathematics. |
