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If you have no idea where you want to go to college, or what you want to study, starting the process can be over-whelming. Where do you even start your college search?
You might start your college search on-line. But good old-fashioned books can still be your best resource for going through the process in an organized way and to make sense of it all. Here’s a short list of 5 books to get you started!…
It’s almost that time again – time to start on college applications! But how do you choose a college? How do you know which university is right for you?
You need to think beyond name brand colleges that have an admission rate around only 5%!
Here’s a roundup of free articles and resources to get you started on your college search. And when you finish with those, don’t forget the important last step to choosing a college at the bottom of this post!…
It’s always gratifying when research backs up what you’ve been personally experiencing. And the research comes from Harvard, no less! Last year Harvard released the report, Turning the Tide. Their research shows that college admission practices are damaging our children and are harmful to society. And the press responded favorably, giving them a lot of positive press coverage for the report….
Sometimes it takes a photo to picture clearly what’s been there all along. (We’re so used to being conscious about gender equality that I had a hard time finding a photo to publish that shows the gender ratio that I saw in a Gifted and Talented (GT) math class photo.)
After hating math for years, our daughter was super excited about her geometry class project, designing tiny houses for a local homeless community. The class took a field trip to the community to kick off this project based learning. Her teacher sent a photo of the GT (gifted and talented) math class on it.
That was when I found out my daughter’s GT math class was 80% boys!
I was shocked to see that in a class of twenty, there were only four girls.
I shouldn’t have been….
Max CEO and Co-Founder of Castle working at Rebirth House
Generation Startup is a documentary I just started watching on Netflix. It follows young entrepreneurs and employees of other startups as they try to make new companies successful. In the first ten minutes, several things have already caught my attention. Are low numbers of young entrepreneurs caused by our broken education system?
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You can’t get copies of the test questions or your answers if you take an ACT District administered test. This is opposed to the ACT national test dates. (Other exceptions are International, State, and Special test dates.) For example, the ACT test date in April during a school week (not a Saturday) is a District test.
There does not seem to be any logical explanations for this….
Does education make you bad at investing in the stock market? Does it make you a bad investor?
Does education make you bad at investing in the stock market? Does it make you a bad investor?
One of my fears is that the US education system is hurting the chances of our best and brightest of being a success.
If I encourage my kids to be great students and devote time to making good grades, will they end up being successful students, but not successful in life?
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It’s an understatement to say that admission to Stanford is competitive. The acceptance rate is less than 5%. But that college application stress caused by these admission requirements is harmful to students and society is less well known, even after all the good press Harvard University got for its report, Turning the Tide.
At Stanford University, Challenge Success has been trying for a decade to highlight the corrosive educational policies driven by college application requirements. They provide research and information to help parents and high schools alleviate college application stress.
But in spite of this research at their own institutions, Harvard and Stanford continue to use the same admission criteria. It follows that they hold the opinion that while these requirements may be harmful to most students, the elite students they admit to their own universities are up to the competition and experience no harmful effects. But is this true?…
It’s no secret, admission to the top universities in the United States is very, very competitive. But the fact that these admission requirements are detrimental to students and society is less well known, even after all the good press Harvard University got for its report, Turning the Tide.
At Stanford University, Challenge Success has been trying for a decade to highlight these corrosive educational policies and help parents and high schools alleviate the detrimental effects.
But has either university taken the advice of their own experts and changed their admission requirements?
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In spite of the evidence that the current college admission requirements are harmful to students’ well-being, Harvard is not alone in their admission requirements. You can see the same values reflected in the Stanford admission requirements.
Last year, Harvard made headlines announcing that the current college admission process is detrimental to students and society. The report called for radical change in college admission selection criteria. In my last post,”Is Harvard “turning the tide” in admissions to Ivy League schools?” I looked to see if there was any evidence that Harvard is taking any steps to change college applications in their own admission process.
Unfortunately, aside from some changes in some essay topics, they are not.
Cynically, I wasn’t surprised. I noticed one tiny, but significant, detail on the website where I read their report, Turning the Tide, even, before I looked up Harvard’s current admission application information….