Monthly Archives: March 2010

If you've been paying attention to the posts on this blog, you know that we took a swipe recently - a BIG swipe - at the stranglehold that the Scholastic Aptitude Test has on American higher education.
What can we offer as an alternative? In the interest of fair play, we are offering up an SAT [...]

Which costs less - attending college basketball games or earning college credits?
Okay, that's a trick question. But before you answer it, here's some perspective. Let's say that you'd like to head out to Indianapolis to watch the men's NCAA Final Four, or off to San Antonio to watch the women's. Good for you, but you'd [...]

Did you know that the first Scholastic Aptitude Test was administered way back in 1901?
Fewer than 1,000 students took it that year. Over the years, the SAT grown from a psychological experiment into a test that is taken by between 1.5 and 2 million students every year, at $45 a pop. Educational Testing Service (ETS) [...]

If you want to get some perspective about the power of computers as teaching machines, think about Socrates. That's right - Socrates, the dude who did himself in by drinking hemlock juice. History tells us that every day, Athenian students would gather in a circle around Socrates while he gave long talks and engaged [...]

We all know that there's a boom happening in post-secondary trade schools. Chances are that you have seen some of them opening their doors not far from where you live. Some of these schools can teach you to be a chef or a computer technician. Others will train you to be an electrician, a medical [...]

There's more to higher education than sitting in a classroom. After hitting the books, college students play ultimate, date, party, flirt, order pizza, and grab late-night lattes to keep their eyes open.
Sound good? Yes, it is. But what if you are a distance learner? Does that mean that you can't enjoy all those extras? Not [...]

If you've been visiting this blog, you already know the benefits of taking college courses online. You can save money - a lot of it - and even cut the cost of your first college year down to a few thousand dollars. You can pursue your studies at the pace that's right for you. You [...]

March 14 is Pi Day. No, that is not a typo. It means that 3/14 is the day when people the world round (some people, anyway) celebrate the invention of that wonderful number, 3.14, known as Pi. (Actually, you can roll Pi out to 3.141593 and then keep adding numbers infinitely to the right.)
Need a [...]

Only a few years ago, many college applicants regarded state universities as discount-priced "safety schools" that they could fall back on if other schools rejected them.
That scenario is quickly changing. Here are some of the reasons why . . .
Tens of thousands more students are applying to state schools. According to The Boston Globe, 2008 [...]

"Some colleges offering 3-year bachelor's degrees"
An article just published in USA Today, reports that a small number of American colleges are starting to offer degrees in three years instead of the traditional four. Justin Pope, author of the article, writes: "Not much else seems to be helping keep down college costs, so maybe this [...]

"The future belongs to the nation that best educates its citizens."- President Barack Obama's speech on education, March 10, 2009
Since President Barack Obama spoke those words nearly one year ago, has the U.S. Department of Education done anything to make it easier for Americans to attend college?
The short answer to that question [...]