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Regular readers may have noticed that a bunch of new posts about education, high school, college and success appeared on this website. The posts from my former site, High School, College Success!, about the influence of elite colleges have on our high schools, and how it is damaging our children – especially our brightest and most motivated – now appear here.
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My posts about my latest thoughts on the educational system, college, and the college application process have moved from HighSchoolCollegeSuccess.com, and are now on my this blog, MomBehindtheCurtain.com.
Most of the ones having to do with education will be under the Education tab in the table of contents at the top of the webpage.
But also, if your interested in reading proficiency and kids books, check out my 96+ best books lists for kids divided by age and grade level and more information about kids books.
Eventually I will fold all of HighSchoolCollegeSuccess.com into my Mom Behind the Curtain blog, but for quick reference here are my latest posts about education and reading on Mom Behing the Curtain. I hope you find something that interests you!…
I’m still following the college admissions scandal. I can’t look away. Not because I’m interested in the personal tragedies of the celebrity families of Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman, but because of what it reveals about the college admission and selection process. You might be thinking (or hoping) that the college admissions scandal has no affect on your child, but it does. And it doesn’t just affect those students planning on applying to elite colleges. The college admission practices of elite schools affect just about every child in school – every child in America.
Main Building (or The Tower) on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin against a cloudy sky. This clock tower was completed in 1937 and is a main focal point of the campus.
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How far are you willing to go to get into your dream college? What would you do for your kids to get them into their dream college? Pretty far, is the answer for parents charged in a nation-wide federal probe that was exposed yesterday. What does it mean for you?…
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A recent opinion article in the New York Times got me thinking again about whether or not good students become successful. As stress and anxiety in college students increase, you have to wonder if all the homework and stress of being a straight-A student is worth it. Is there a connection between a student’s GPA and their later success?
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Did you know there may soon be a viable alternative to the SAT and ACT?
A Test Worth Teaching To? How a College Dropout Plans to Replace the SAT and ACT
By Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America (Conan O’Brien) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Does this represent a bias or reality? So, I decided to start taking note when I hear of someone who is a success who was a stellar student….
Teachers will tell you that finishing your homework is the most important thing you can do for your future success, but is it? With AP classes, it’s very common for students to have more homework than they can complete and still get a full night’s sleep.
Just how important is sleep?…
With our second child in her senior year and our third in high school it’s pretty much official. All of our kids are going to finish high school under staggering homework loads and there is nothing we can do about it. I have talked with administrators. I have talked with teachers. We have insisted our own children take on-level classes in some subjects (with mixed results.) And we have insisted on study halls (fewer classes). But my kids still have too much homework. So what can they learn from all that homework? (Because no, they do not reap enough benefits in college credit.)…