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T.H.E. Journal	Class.com Has Two New Mini-courses Class.com (www.class.com) has two new mini-courses that are designed to help students, teachers and parents preview the online learning experience to gauge the students' ability to grasp the new learning method and ultimately succeed.
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.
BusinessWeek April 16, 2007 Christoph Guttentag	The College Crunch: Why Getting In Has Gotten So Tough For many American families, March Madness refers not to a basketball tournament but to the ever-increasing anxiety in the weeks before colleges mail their acceptance letters.
T.H.E. Journal March 17, 2010 David Nagel	Snapshot: Students Want Online Learning High school students seem to be overwhelmingly in favor of online instruction as a component of their educations.
Registered Rep. March 27, 2015 Lynn O'Shaughnessy	The Nation's Most Generous Colleges While there are nearly 2,800 four-year colleges and universities in the United States, there are just over five dozen that claim that they meet 100 percent of their students' demonstrated financial need.
Registered Rep. September 19, 2014 Lynn O'Shaughnessy	The College Illusion Are your clients, who could be paying as much as a quarter of a million dollars to send one child to college, getting their money's worth?
Salon.com February 22, 2001 Amy Benfer	After the SAT As the University of California considers dropping the test, admissions directors of two colleges talk about what happened after they made it optional...
BusinessWeek March 19, 2007 Louis Lavelle	Playbook: Does Your School Make The Grade? Here are four things to consider when applying to an undergrad business program.
T.H.E. Journal February 2009 Charlene O'Hanlon	Credit Recovery Software: the New Summer School Districts are using online programs to get at-risk students back on track to graduation.
T.H.E. Journal May 2005 Lori Weir	The Importance of Developing and Investing in Online Course Materials That Enrich the Classroom Experience for Special-Needs Students Students with disabilities may be using assistive technology, such as a screen reader, to access online course materials. When developing course materials, ask yourself how a student with a learning disability might perceive the tasks and information.
Registered Rep. December 19, 2011 Lynn O'Shaughnessy	8 Facts You Didn't Know About the ACT and SAT In honor of test-taking season, here are some valuable statistics to know about the two tests.
T.H.E. Journal July 2007 Anita Givens	Systemic School Reform :: Texas Texas' TIP program packages six key technology resources to create a digitally rich environment that has helped turn at least one low-performing school into a recognized success.
Salon.com May 11, 2001 Meg Robbins	The failure of testing President Bush wants to "test every child, every year." But a growing movement of families and teachers insists this is a formula for mediocre schooling and stressed-out kids.
Registered Rep. September 17, 2012 Lynn O'Shaughnessy	College Rankings Are Not Accurate People don't appreciate that U.S. News doesn't even attempt to measure the type of learning going on at the nation's colleges and universities.
BusinessWeek June 19, 2006 Anne Tergesen	What Price College Admission? Parents are spending tens of thousands on advisers to shape their kids' game plans.
T.H.E. Journal September 2002 Dan Holden	The Litany Investigating the organizational changes needed to make technology effective in the classroom and create an environment where no child is left behind
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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.
BusinessWeek March 19, 2007 Lynn O'Shaughnessy	Scholarships: Not Just For The Needy Why schools are giving more scholarship money to affluent kids.
T.H.E. Journal November 2002 Rushton Hurley	Fine-Tuning an Online High School to Benefit At-Risk Students In late 2001, San Antonio, Texas, started a virtual school designed to give students a new environment in which to pursue their high school studies. The experience challenged those of us running the program to repeatedly revisit assumptions about learning and administration.
Registered Rep. August 26, 2013 Lynn O'Shaughnessy	School's (Not) Out Parents often assume that their children are going to finish their degrees in four years. Most of the time, it doesn't happen.
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.
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.
BusinessWeek November 14, 2005 Lindsey Gerdes	Personal Finance for Freshmen College students need money smarts if they want to succeed after graduation. Increasingly, schools are offering assistance.
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?
T.H.E. Journal May 2005 Mari Liles	Interactive Whiteboard System Drives Increased Achievement at Texas School for the Deaf The electronic whiteboard system has made a huge difference in how teachers teach and how motivated students have become about learning.
Reason June 2005 Lisa Snell	How Schools Cheat From underreporting violence to inflating graduation rates to fudging test scores, educators are lying to the American public.
T.H.E. Journal July 2008 David Couch	Middle Schools : Kentucky : A Head Start on the Future School officials in Kentucky use technology to help students keep on track for graduation.
T.H.E. Journal July 2006 Timothy D. Snyder	Colorado: Unlimited Learning With its many small and remote districts, Colorado is using online learning to educate kids in every nook and cranny in the state.
CRM September 2013 Leonard Klie	Schools Need to Rethink Their CRM Approaches Many colleges and universities are only using CRM for marketing, ignoring vital service and sales components.
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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.
The Motley Fool December 15, 2010 Brian Stoffel	Don't Go Anywhere Near This Stock Just because Apollo Group's stock is down doesn't mean it can't drop further.
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Registered Rep. September 27, 2010 Lynn O'Shaughnessy	College In Four Years, Not Six Before a teenager falls in love with any colleges be sure to check their graduation rates. It could save your clients tens of thousands of dollars.
T.H.E. Journal December 2003 George Viebranz	Web-Based Tools Strengthen Ohio District's Community Connection, Survey Capabilities The Berea City School District in Ohio had two primary objectives in evaluating Web-based tools: to better and more fully integrate technology into the classroom as a learning aid, and to meet Berea's need for a stronger school-to-home connection.
T.H.E. Journal April 2002 Judy A. Serwatka	Improving Student Performance in Distance Learning Courses This article concentrates on the problems encountered and the solutions developed while teaching two college networking courses in the distance learning format...
T.H.E. Journal June 2003 Mona Westhaver	Learning to Learn: The Best Strategy for Overall Student Achievement State and local funding for schools is decreasing. Learning to learn -- helping students develop thinking skills, learning skills and, most importantly, a passion for learning -- is the solution that will have the most long-term and widespread impact.
T.H.E. Journal October 2002 Tshepo Batane	Technology and Student Collaboration A research project in one Botswana secondary school
T.H.E. Journal February 2003 Sylvia Charp	Engaging the Tech-Savvy Generation It's the job of every educator to use all technological resources available to keep students engaged in the classroom. But a true tech-savvy educator is continually learning from his or her students.
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ifeminists March 23, 2005 Tony Zizza	Time To Scrap The STAR Program So what's the problem with the STAR program? Isn't it something that will make students who are "behind" shine a little brighter? Give additional points of light to educational darkness and dimming or dimmed academic potential?
T.H.E. Journal May 14, 2009 Ruth Reynard	Technology's Impact on Learning Outcomes: Can It Be Measured? The ongoing debate on the effectiveness of technology use for student learning outcomes still seems to have no clear answers.