There’s a simple reason more and more college students of all ages are taking StraighterLine online courses.
College shouldn’t cost arm and a leg
After all, online college courses should cost less than their offline equivalents. Which is why here at StraighterLine we’re always surprised when some for-profit colleges charge so much for the same basic introductory online [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2012
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Stop... Watch... Save with StraighterLine
Posted on November 30, 2012 by Barry Lenson
Categories: College Costs
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How Veterans and Military Personnel Can Use DSST Tests to Earn College Credit
Posted on November 29, 2012 by Barry Lenson
Does StraighterLine or DSST Offer You Greater Speed or Better Value?
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Even though this is the StraighterLine Blog, we encourage you to investigate all your educational options and be sure that you are making the choices that fit your situation best. But here's a suggestion. If you already know a lot about one of the subjects [...]
Categories: Military Education Benefits, Transferring College Credit
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“Lay Away” Online College Courses this Holiday Season and Avoid Student Debt
Posted on November 28, 2012 by Guest Blogger
By Beth Dumbauld
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It’s the preseason to the holiday season and you know what that means: a wreath with ornaments here, the waft of mulling spices there, and a rising tide of email deals and TV ads splashing lots of retail holi-dazzle across your screen. November also means ‘tis the season of layaway at retail stores [...]
Categories: Cost of Education, Paying for College
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An Invitation for International Students to Attend College in America
Posted on November 27, 2012 by Barry Lenson
An Invitation for International Students to Attend College in America
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If you’re an accomplished student who has completed high school in another country, have you considered attending college in America? Chances are that you have. As you know, there are hundreds of excellentAmerican colleges and universities, far more than in any other country in the world [...]
Categories: Study in the USA, Going to College In America
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How to Avoid Defaulting on Student Loans
Posted on November 26, 2012 by Barry Lenson
Students in Record Numbers are Defaulting on Loans . . .
“College students defaulting at record rate,”an article that Meghan Hoyer wrote forUSAToday, reports some sobering statistics that have just been released by the U.S. Department of Education.Last year's 8.8% default rate surged to 13.4% this year.
Nearly half of defaulting borrowers attended for-profit colleges, despite the fact that [...]
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Categories: College Tuition, Paying for College, College Costs, Financial Aid
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Registration Deadline Looms! Don't Get Shut Out of Class!
Posted on November 25, 2012 by Barry Lenson
PSST! Hey . . . you!
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Yes, you. You there in your dorm room, doing the tenth rewrite of the paper you have to turn in tomorrow, “Ambivalence – good or bad?”
Sure, you’ve got to keep grinding away at your paper all night until you get it just the way you like it. But while you’ve [...]
Categories: Flexible College Options
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College Shouldn’t Cost an Arm and a Leg
Posted on November 24, 2012 by Barry Lenson
There are lots of reasons why college shouldn’t cost an arm and a leg. One is that if you pay an arm and a leg for anything, you are going to look like a boomerang. But there are lots of other reasons too.
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If we start throwing numbers around, the whole issue of how much college costs can [...]
Categories: Paying for College, College Costs
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Free Online College Courses MOOCs vs. StraighterLine
Posted on November 23, 2012 by Barry Lenson
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCS) have been making the news a lot lately. Just this week, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced plans to fund research that will explore the role that MOOCs can plan in American higher education.
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But at the moment, what is your best educational option and value - free online college course [...]
Categories: Online Education, College Education, College Costs, Higher Education, MOOCS
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How to Save a Fortune on Black Friday!
Posted on November 22, 2012 by Barry Lenson
Black Friday is dangerous. Over the last few years, people have been trampled and physically attacked, just for trying to get through the doors of superstores to snag a sale item, a Tickle Me Elmo, or some other hot toy.
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So stay home. While all those other people are standing outside the mall’s doors at 4:00 [...]
Categories: Online Education, College Education
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What Thanksgiving Is All About
Posted on November 21, 2012 by Barry Lenson
Thanksgiving isn’t about turkey. It isn’t about standing on line at the airport or driving long distances, just to sleep at home or in a relative’s house. (It’s not really about stuffing or cranberry sauce but man, is that stuff good.)
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When you come down to it, Thanksgiving is really about two things. It’s about family [...]
Categories: College Education
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How to Ensure Your Own Postgrad Job Placement
Posted on November 20, 2012 by Guest Blogger
By Brittany Hege
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Whether you're currently working toward your degree through StraighterLine's affordable online courses or taking the more traditional classroom route, one thing's for sure: you can never do too much to increase the likelihood of snagging a postgrad job.
But don't just take our word for it. Editor at large of The Chronicle of Higher [...]
Categories: Finding A Job, Careers
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Why Is College so Expensive?
Posted on November 19, 2012 by Barry Lenson
While I was in New York City a few days ago, I overheard this conversation on the Broadway uptown bus. Three people who looked like current college students were talking . . .
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“It’s just too goddam expensive.”
“What’s too goddam expensive?”
“College. College is too goddam expensive.”
“You’re not XXXXing me it’s too expensive!”
“Why is it so XXXXing [...]
Categories: College Tuition, College Costs
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Grade Inflation is Rampant
Posted on November 18, 2012 by Barry Lenson
Over the last few years, grade inflation has become a hot topic at American colleges and universities. In case you don’t know, grade inflation is the practice of raising students’ grades so that they all dowell in a class. Many colleges and universities have silently engaged in it because it helps more of their students get into [...]
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Categories: Study Skills, College Admissions
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Higher Education Has Three Problems . . .
Posted on November 17, 2012 by Barry Lenson
Burck Smith, our founder and CEO, believes that American higher education has three problems . . .
Price - College should be more affordable.
Debt - Students shouldn’t be graduating with an average of $27,000 in debt.
Student persistence – More of the students who start college should graduate.You can hear Burck Smith and David Parento (StraighterLine’s Chief Operating and Financial Officer) discuss these [...]
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Categories: College Tuition, Distance Learning
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College Should Be . . .
Posted on November 16, 2012 by Barry Lenson
Our fans and students respond to our “fill in the blank” invitation on Facebook
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StraighterLine recently set up a special Facebook page and invited visitors to fill in the blank in the statement “College should be ________.”
Talk about fun! Here’s a quick summary of some of the comments that StraighterLine students and fans have slugged into that blank [...]
Categories: College Tuition, College Education, College Costs
