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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.   |
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.
October 3, 2011
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
What College Costs Thanks to a new federally mandated cost calculator, parents can learn far in advance what a particular college will cost them, which should lead to better informed decisions. |
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.
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. |
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
January 6, 2011
John Hechinger |
For-Profit College Grads Also Earn a Life of Debt The schools leave students more indebted than conventional colleges |
Salon.com
December 15, 2000
Maura Kelly |
Stop the madness Admissions officers at top-rated colleges prescribe time out for burnout... |
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. |
AskMen.com
Bridget Quigg |
Is A College Education Worth The Money? PayScale.com figured out how valuable a four-year college degree is for various schools based on increased earnings over a 30-year period of work after obtaining a degree. Here are tips for picking a college with good ROI. |
BusinessWeek
June 24, 2010
Louis Lavelle |
College Degrees Get an Audit New research suggests that many students might be better off, financially at least, not bothering with college at all |
Registered Rep.
November 19, 2012
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Value Investing for College Several schools recently dubbed the best value by Kiplinger's also charge the highest net prices in the nation. Shame. |
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. |
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
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. |
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.
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. |
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? |
BusinessWeek
May 31, 2004
Jessi Hempel |
College Tuition? Gumption Won't Cover It Why is it so much harder for the brightest low-income kids to afford college in the U.S.? |
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. |
HHMI Bulletin
Fall 2012 |
HHMI Awards $50 Million to Colleges Forty-seven small colleges and universities have accepted a challenge: to create more engaging science classes, bring real-world research experiences to students, and increase the diversity of students who study science. |
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. |
CRM
September 1, 2007
Jessica Tsai |
Market Focus: Education -- Learning the Recruitment Ropes Business tactics are helping higher education institutions tackle imminent challenges in recruitment and retention. |
The Motley Fool
September 25, 2006
Rich Smith |
Don't Flunk Your Retirement Will putting your kid through college put you in the poorhouse? Spend a little time poring over the resumes of America's most powerful CEOs, and you'll be struck by how very few of them graduated from elite schools. |
BusinessWeek
October 22, 2007
Sophia Asare |
Putting College Within Reach for Many Nonprofit programs provide intensive admissions-prep services for promising kids from low-income backgrounds. |
Job Journal
December 3, 2006
Rich Heintz |
Public vs. Private Colleges Are you better off attending a public or private school? |
ifeminists
November 11, 2003
Wendy McElroy |
Colleges Charge Big for Worthless Curricula Before they send their children onto a college campus in North America, parents should read two new reports. What passes for education at many universities is not merely an intellectual embarrassment; it is also tremendously expensive. |
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. |
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. |
Job Journal
November 9, 2008 |
Career Snapshot: Postsecondary Teachers College-level instructors enjoy a class of students more eager to learn. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
April 19, 2004
Robert Brokamp |
What Will College Really Cost? You've heard the scary statistics, but the final price tag may not be so bad. |
T.H.E. Journal
November 2003
Judith B. Rajala |
Bridging the Gap: Programs for Earning College Credit in High School Earning college credit while still in high school can afford students many wonderful opportunities. A look at programs that provide high school students college-level credit prior to graduation |
BusinessWeek
March 19, 2007
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Scholarships: Not Just For The Needy Why schools are giving more scholarship money to affluent kids. |
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. |
ifeminists
May 30, 2007
Tony Zizza |
Say No To High School Graduation Coaches No amount of money can instill pride in students and their parents. The very idea of a high school graduation coach is ridiculous. Why do taxpayers have to fund stupidity and incompetence? |
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. |
BusinessWeek
March 19, 2007
Louis Lavelle |
What's Behind the Grade The methodology underlying undergraduate business program rankings. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2005
Jones & Aaronson |
Showing Some Class Universities reach out to those affected by Katrina. |
The Motley Fool
May 23, 2011
Dan Caplinger |
3 Tips for New Grads Be sure to start off your new life on the right foot. Include your finances in your planning, and you'll get the most you can out of your education. |
AskMen.com
Thomas Bey |
5 Things You Didn't Know About Online Degrees Legitimate degrees obtained online have been dismissed as less prestigious than those earned in a brick-and-mortar classroom. This is beginning to change as the overall curriculum quality is improving. |
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. |
National Real Estate Investor
August 1, 2004
Steve McLinden |
Masters in Training The country's approximately 15 dedicated real estate grad programs and additional 30 MBA programs with a real state emphasis appear to be adjusting as quickly as possible to the fast-evolving industry. |
Geotimes
January 2007
Margaret Anne Baker |
Diversity in the Geosciences -- We Can Do Better As minorities become the majority of the population, the inability to tap these communities is a severe handicap to actually tapping the bulk of the best and brightest students and including them in the geoscience community. |
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 |
