2017-11-28 Grow Your Vocabulary by Learning Root Words
English has been called one the most difficult languages for non-native speakers to learn. One reason is that English has so many rules – and almost as many exceptions of…
2017-11-26 College Admissions: Teaching Parents How to Help
For most people around the world, applying for admission to a college or university is a major event in their lives. Many young people see it as one of their…
2017-11-22 Europe’s Roma Do Not Have Equal Education
The Roma are Europe’s largest ethnic minority. Official reports say the group, also known as Romani people, has up to 12 million members in Europe. The Roma are among Europe’s…
2017-11-15 Fewer New International Students Attending US Colleges
For the first time in 12 years, the number of new international students attending American colleges and universities has dropped. That information comes from the 2017 Open Doors Report on…
2017-11-08 Study: Netherlands Rates Highest for English Proficiency
A new report says Europe leads the world in English language proficiency, followed closely by Asia. The Netherlands continues for the second year to have the best non-native English speakers,…
2017-11-12 Why US College Students Cheat and How to Fight It
Everyone who has been a student has probably experienced something like this: It is the night before a big test in one of your most difficult classes. You tried your…
2017-11-05 College Admissions: Learning from the Process
For most college students, the main goal of higher education is earning a degree that will lead to a successful and satisfying career. The years spent working on a program…
2017-11-01 Program Offers Job Experience, Pay for High Schoolers
At the start of the school year, Aelina Pogosian could not wait to tell her friends about the most interesting thing she had done over the summer. The 16-year-old did…
2017-10-29 Changing Colleges in the US Is Complex, Costly
Savannah College of Art and Design, or SCAD, is a private university in the American state of Georgia. In 2003, Sarah Luthans believed it would be the best place for…
2017-10-25 Educators Try New Methods to Save American Indian Languages
The United States is home to 562 federally recognized American Indian Nations, each with its own language. Yet the number of Native Americans with the ability to speak their tribe’s…
2017-10-22 College Admissions: Valuing More Than Just Test Scores
“We’re not just thinking about the classroom experience for our students, but the four year student experience. And so we’re trying to build a community, and make sure that you…
2017-10-18 Take a Break From Essay Writing with Dialogue Journals
Writing may be one of the most hated exercises in a classroom. Rarely do students celebrate when the teacher asks them to do a writing activity. Joy Peyton says there…
2017-10-15 Current, Former Students Say Formal College Advice Not That Helpful
Terri Tchorzynski works hard to help young people in the American state of Michigan succeed after they complete high school. Tchorzynski is a school counselor at a special public school…
2017-10-10 What Are the Best US High Schools? It Depends
Sometimes, deciding the best is difficult. For example, deciding the 10 best public high schools – out of 24,000 – in America. Two publications put together lists of the top…
2017-10-03 Preparing Students for Changing Job Markets
Chances are that today’s college graduates will get jobs not directly connected to their majors. A 2014 study by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York found that only 27…