There is no guarantee that a summer job or internship is actually going to get you any closer to reaching your educational goals. In all likelihood, you are going to get a job that has very little educational value.

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Colleges practice age discrimination. When Shelly gets thrown out of the Playboy mansion because she is 27, she is already too old to apply to college in the traditional view of many American four-year schools. 

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So you see, dealing with your parents at this time of transition is really a two-way street. Your parents might drive you a little crazy. You might drive them a little crazy too. But with some healthy give and take, you will all get through it together. 

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If you’re a high school student who making college plans, chances are you have been trying to decide whether it makes more sense for you to take college classes at StraighterLine or Oxford University, the hoary British University that dates from sometime around the year 1,100.

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There has been a lot of talk in Washington lately about supporting education, because it is a key to keeping America competitive in world business and technology. So guys down in Washington, you can’t have it both ways. You either support students and education, or you don’t.

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The calendar doesn’t lie and if you are facing finals in the next few weeks, it’s time to gear up and shift your studying into high gear. Here are some strategies that can make your studying easier, earn you higher grades, and maybe even pump up your GPA a notch or two as the year draws to a close. 

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It’s an open secret in American higher education. If colleges did not consider the gender of applicants – if they only admitted men and women who had achieved the very highest grades and standardized test scores – some of those schools would end up with incoming classes that were comprised of about 80% women.  

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In years past, the College Board has been forced to hire actual human beings to grade all those essays. But according to “Facing a Robo-Grader? Just Keep Obfuscating Mellifluously,” an article by Michael Winerip in The New York Times, that is about to change.

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As  America’s infatuation with online learning has grown, it is now possible to study online to prepare for a number of unusual professions. Here’s a selection of unusual skills that you can learn online – and if you click the links below, you will discover that the courses described are pretty serious  . . . 

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A number of American colleges are doing all they can to help veterans return to college after they arrive home. Many of these schools have special counselors who are fully up-to-date on sources of government funding that can help veterans and service people pay for college. 

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