Some college students might be anxiously anticipating their holiday break, while others are becoming overwhelmed with countdown to their last holiday break and beginning of their last semester. A new class of graduates may be asking: What lies ahead? Will I get a job in my field? Will it make me happy? Did I pick the right major?
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Many of today’s students will leave high school without the critical and creative thinking skills needed to solve college-level problems and make wise real-world decisions. In order for American students to be strong innovators, leaders, and observers, many schools have adopted a critical and creative thinking program. However, according to a new study, for all the positive effects creative thinking can have on students, it can also apply to their ethics and the rate at which students cheat.
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In a review of 29 studies of school-parent programs, family participation in education was twice as predictive of students academic success as family socioeconomic status. Some of the more intensive programs had effects that were 10 times greater than other factors.
(http://www.michigan.gov/documents/Final_Parent_Involvement_Fact_Sheet_14732_7.pdf)
Yesterday was International Volunteer Day, a holiday created by the United Nations to tell the world “millions of volunteers are changing lives for the better every day and with better recognition and support much more can be done.â€
How do we ensure high school students graduate with skills to succeed in higher education and increase the number of students walking on graduation day? Many believe the answer is to start preparing them for success at the beginning of the students’ high school career by helping them through the transition from 8th to 9th grade. Preparing students for their most important transitions is critical to their success, however, a new study of Florida schools shows intervention should start years earlier in the transition from grade school to middle school.
As technology advances, students are given more options for furthering their education than ever before. So, how do they decide what is right for them and how “alternative” should their decision be?
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In a recent survey of 1,100 middle school and high school students, 24 percent said they had been picked on via text messaging, which is up from 14 percent when the same kids were surveyed in the year before.
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Many college students will be returning home next week for fall break, and many more in the following weeks for winter vacation. This can be an academically stressful time for students as they put in extra study time to end the semester strong and start preparing for the upcoming semester. This can also be a socially and emotionally difficult time as they separate themselves from their new lifestyle and friends and get plopped back in the home environment and lifestyle they left months before.
Do you remember being in class and wondering, “Why don’t they teach us about anything we’re interested in?” The criticism passed through sixth-grader Thomas Saurez’s mind too, except he did something about it.
The GED is going through it’s biggest makeover since inception 69 years ago. The new direction? To make the GED reflect changes in education and our economy and become a guiding force to get GED recipients enrolled in higher education.