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One in four kids is not graduating high school, which is a worse rate than their parents. Meaning, your kids are less likely to graduate from high school than you were. And, the US is the only industrialized country where that is the case. And apparently, the schools’ graduation goals aren’t helping either. Read more…
IRVING, Texas, April 1, 2008 /PRNewswire/ — Coca-Cola, in conjunction with Chuck E. Cheese’s — the home of safe, fun family entertainment — is teaming up on a college scholarship promotion. Parents can visit the Web site — http://www.ncaa.com/collegebound – and enter for the chance to win Coca-Cola’s $25,000 College Bound Scholarship for their kids […]
MONTREAL, QUEBEC–(Marketwire - March 31, 2008) - Compared to post-secondary students at public colleges, students pursuing post-secondary studies at privately operated career colleges tend to be older, with a mean age of 29, and have a greater reliance on government student financial aid. In addition, most of them (72 per cent) are women, and they […]
ARMONK, NY–(Marketwire - February 14, 2008) - IBM today announced it is teaming with University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) and North Carolina State University (NC State) in Raleigh to deliver new courses on programming languages that have become the foundation of the emerging web-based economy. These skills are critical for young people […]
PHOENIX, AZ–(Marketwire - February 7, 2008) - Minority students are taking advantage of affordable education options in increasing numbers, with minority college enrollment up overall and especially at schools with the smallest tuition increases, according to a recent report by the Government Accountability Office. With student debt levels mounting for college students in general, […]
PHOENIX, AZ–(Marketwire - January 31, 2008) - The United States continues to fall behind other major industrialized nations in terms of the percentage of the population with a college degree, according to a recent series of joint studies released by the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems and Jobs for the Future.
Currently ranked […]
ATLANTA, Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ — SpinVox, the leader in voice-to-text technology, has used its expertise in mobile phone and voicemail etiquette to name America’s top ten most annoying voicemails.”In the US we spend almost 100 billion minutes each year leaving or listening to voicemail so most people will have received one or more of these […]
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ — USA Funds, the nation’s leading education loan guarantor, advises college students, former students and their parents that they may be able to reduce their federal income tax bills if they paid certain college expenses during 2007.”In recent years the U.S. Congress has enacted measures that have expanded federal income tax […]
LITTLETON, Colo., Dec. 17 /PRNewswire/ — Applying to college is nothing if not a high-stress experience. High school seniors across the country are staying up until the wee hours of the morning to fill out applications and write essays for numerous colleges and universities and simultaneously struggling to maintain their grades. To ease this […]