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Finance & Development
June 1, 2007
Lewis & Lockheed |
Getting All Girls into School New ways are needed to educate "excluded girls" in developing countries.   |
The Motley Fool
January 4, 2007
Robert Brokamp |
A World-Changing Investment John Wood left his life as a Microsoft executive to found the non-profit Room to Read, which brings books, libraries, and computers to thousands of children in the developing world. |
Registered Rep.
September 16, 2013
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
The Real Costs of College A net price calculator allows clients to look beyond sticker prices to focus on the only price that matters to a mom and dad: the price they'll pay for their child to attend college. |
Registered Rep.
October 21, 2015
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
An Important Change in Financial Aid What President Obama did by signing an executive order in September to make two seemingly simple changes to the FAFSA process can potentially reap huge benefits to your families with college applicants. |
Registered Rep.
June 18, 2012
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
How College Rankings Influence Scholarship Awards For your affluent clients, it's the schools that don't possess the marquee names that will be eager to award their children scholarships. The author's book, The College Solution: A Guide to Everyone Looking for the Right School at the Right Price explains more. |
Registered Rep.
October 15, 2012
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
College at a Discount Next year, a Minnesota-based university will cut its tuition by 33 percent for all its students. Others will likely follow. |
Fast Company
November 17, 2011
Anya Kamenetz |
The Case For Girls Most would-be parents prefer boys, not girls. Is part of the trouble, dare we say, a branding problem - one that advertising could solve? |
Information Today
October 21, 2014
Barbie E. Keiser |
Gale Wants to Know How Libraries Positively Impact Communities Career Online High School delivers accredited education to public libraries. Gale's customer care and training teams partner with libraries as they encourage students to join and as they enroll them in the program. |
Fast Company
December 2002
Christine Canabou |
John Wood Turns the Page He struck it rich at Microsoft. Then he bought a one-way ticket to Kathmandu in search of a richer life. He found it -- building schools and libraries in the poorest places on earth. |
Information Today
July 29, 2010 |
U.S. Public Libraries Can Provide High Schools with Free Credo Reference Access Recognizing the increasing burden on public libraries to support the research needs of students at local schools, Credo Reference will be made available to a library's local public high school(s). |
Registered Rep.
February 23, 2015
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Helping Parents Deal with College Stress The number of parents who express concern about getting their kids into college is almost as many as those who worry about paying the tab. |
Registered Rep.
April 27, 2015
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
College Savings Don't Hurt Chances For Financial Aid Clients will be in a far better position and enjoy more college options if they've saved for their child's college education. Here's why. |
Registered Rep.
September 21, 2015
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
An Untapped Market in College Financial Planning There is one field where you won't get jostled: The niche for good late-stage college planning. It is just about deserted. |
Registered Rep.
December 17, 2012
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
College Admissions Fever The college admissions process can drive teens and their parents crazy this time of year. Here are some statistics to get clients of college-bound kids to simmer down. |
Financial Advisor
January 2012
Jerilyn Klein Bier |
College Crunch Advisors should start asking clients where their kids may want to attend college when the kids are high school freshmen or even in middle school, says Mazareas. There's a lot to talk about. |
Financial Planning
January 1, 2009
Deborah Fox |
Coming Up Short The current economic environment is putting considerable pressure on families. But if parents and their financial advisors take a proactive approach to college planning, parents and students can avoid reliance on credit markets. |
Registered Rep.
January 23, 2015
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Five Secrets Colleges Are Keeping From You While universities may lure students with fancy brochures, luxury housing and scenic architecture, the reality is that colleges are high-stakes businesses preoccupied with enhancing their own prestige. |
T.H.E. Journal
March 25, 2010
Natasha Wanchek |
Library 2.0: Enter the Teacher Librarian Enthusiast Technology is changing the role of libraries - and the responsibilities of librarians - at schools internationally. |
Information Today
January 22, 2015 |
Taylor & Francis Group Wants to Hear Library Voices Taylor & Francis Group will collect libraries' stories as a way to share practices and experiences that can benefit libraries. |
ifeminists
April 22, 2003
Carey Roberts |
UNICEF's One-Sided Pursuit of Gender Equality This Special Report analyzes the UNICEF sex-specific programs for girls and boys. |
Fast Company
June 2004
Jennifer Esty |
Trade Gap The Gap's suppliers indicate just how widespread the global economy is. |
Reason
June 2009
Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Gutting D.C. School Vouchers After They Work As Predicted The Democratic Party, as part of its "omnibus" federal spending package, voted in March to end the Washington D.C.school voucher program after the 2009-10 school year. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 8, 2010
Jennifer Demski |
Winning Back Homeschoolers With the defection of local families causing a steep dip in enrollment, a rural Ohio district goes virtual to stem the tide. |
ifeminists
May 2, 2009
Carey Roberts |
White House Council on Men and Boys: The Right Thing to Do One of the greatest failings of the Great Society programs of the 1960s was the devastating blow they dealt to low-income African-American families. |
BusinessWeek
June 3, 2010
Caroline Winter |
Kamvar, Schiavino: Techies with a Cause The couple is out to decrease the gender and socioeconomic gaps in computing with their recently launched CodeEd program. |
Fast Company
Dec 2013/Jan 2014
Jillian Goodman |
A Girl Who Codes Girls Who Code expanded to eight programs in five cities (New York, San Francisco, Detroit, San Jose, and Davis, California), with 10 to 15 more programs to come next year. |
ifeminists
March 23, 2005
Glenn Sacks |
New Study of Youth Shows It's Boys Who Are in Crisis The question of whether boys or girls have been doing better has been a point of sometimes rancorous debate among feminist and other scholars in recent decades. |
D-Lib
April 2006
Bonita Wilson |
Change and the Need for Innovation Numerous challenges face libraries and other information organizations in this time of rapid change in both technology and culture. |
Registered Rep.
August 20, 2012
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
When Dream Schools Become a Nightmare Many parents will go to great lengths to send to their children to their dream schools, but it's not always the best financial decision. |
The Motley Fool
September 22, 2010
Selena Maranjian |
7 Ways to Cut the Cost of College Why pay hundreds or thousands when you could be saving that money instead? |
Registered Rep.
May 20, 2013
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Unlocking College Data What good are the loads of data about colleges, if families can't access it? Here are four websites that are opening the vault. |
Registered Rep.
March 18, 2013
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Getting the Most Bang for Your Tuition Bucks Many students and parents don't have the resources to benchmark colleges against one another, but the government has unveiled an online College Scorecard, which will allow families to compare schools based on simple criteria. |
Registered Rep.
June 18, 2015
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
How to Handle Overblown College Fears It's only natural that your clients dread the approach of this milestone, but as they prepare for it, you can help minimize their stress level. |
InternetNews
July 19, 2010 |
Microsoft Lands Cloud Deal With NYC Schools As it continues efforts to entice large, public-sector organizations to sign up for its expanding portfolio of cloud services, Microsoft lands e-mail partnership with New York City schools. |
ONLINE
Nov./Dec. 2006
Marydee Ojala |
The HomePage - Perspectives, Perceptions, and Periscopes Librarians share the same perspective when naming their type of library. Perceptions of libraries, however, differ, depending on perspective. |
Information Today
October 6, 2011 |
Gale Launches Librareo--Free Web-Based Community for LIS Students Librareo is a free web-based community that supports the future of libraries and librarianship by providing students enrolled in Library and Information Studies programs with free access to the professional resources they'll rely upon following graduation. |
Registered Rep.
October 22, 2014
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
How to Get An Athletic Scholarship Here are seven things advisors should share with clients who believe athleticism is the way to cover college costs. |
Information Today
March 17, 2015 |
TLC Displays Reading Levels in Its ILS Products The Library Corp. added Reading Level Integration to its Library*Solution and Library*Solution for Schools. |
Fast Company
December 2009 |
J-Pal's Most Provocative Inquiries J-PAL members hope their findings will inspire smarter anti-poverty policy. Here, a look at some of their most provocative inquiries. |
ifeminists
June 15, 2005
Wendy McElroy |
Missing: Males on College Campuses Some researchers call them the "Lost Boys." They are the students you don't see on college campuses. New statistics show an annual decreasing ratio of male-to female students in all degree-granting institutions. |
Information Today
August 26, 2010 |
"Geek the Library" Campaign Now Available to All U.S. Libraries The campaign is designed to highlight the vital role of public libraries in today's challenging economic environment and to increase local library support. |
Registered Rep.
November 21, 2011
Liz O'Shaughnessy |
Negotiating through the Maze of College Costs One of the biggest mistakes that families with college-bound teenagers make is looking in the wrong places for college cash. |
Salon.com
April 14, 2001
Jake Tapper |
Smile and slash Bush's habit of cutting the budgets of organizations he's used for photo ops is making him an easy target for Democrats... |
T.H.E. Journal
November 2, 2009
David Nagel |
Are Schools Preparing Students for 21st Century Learning? While more than half of America's school principal's say they are doing a good job preparing students for the 21st century, only a third of parents of middle school and high school students agree. |
Science News
December 10, 2005
Janet Raloff |
Academic Cost of Food Insecurity New study shows that academic and behavior problems in children are more likely to occur in homes unable to afford good and plentiful food. |
American Journal of Nursing
July 2011
Dowdell et al. |
Original Research: Online Social Networking Patterns Among Adolescents, Young Adults, and Sexual Offenders The use of online social networks like Facebook continues to increase rapidly among all age groups and segments of our society, presenting new opportunities for the exchange of sexual information as well as unsafe encounters. |
Information Today
September 22, 2015
Nancy K. Herther |
Libraries Find Creative Ways to Color Outside the Lines This is the second year that all types of libraries reached out "to their communities in new and engaging ways," with the shared event Outside the Lines. |
Entrepreneur
April 2010 |
Top Honors Business school students give a shout out to their schools. The Princeton Review's Student Opinion Honors for business schools. |
IDB America
September 2003
Charo Quesada |
An abiding outrage Everybody knows about the plight of street children, but too little is being done about it |
Salon.com
February 5, 2002
Amy Benfer |
Lost boys While girls surge ahead in all subjects at school, boys are lagging behind. Is "girl power" to blame? Do boys need their own dose of "empowerment"? |
