Showing posts with label high school. Show all posts
Showing posts with label high school. Show all posts

23 January 2014

Inspiring Young Children to Read

Convincing a child who hates books to read can be an extremely daunting task, especially if we’re dealing with the most stubborn kid who just won’t switch a video game console for a book. In most cases, the parents are to blame for their kids’ hate for books. If you haven’t been paying too much attention...

05 November 2013

Tips to Organize a Successful Fieldtrip!

Field trips are educational activities for an academic program. The aim of a field trip is to provide practical knowledge of a subject outside a classroom setting. If, for example, you are a history teacher, then your students might have question about ancient civilization and you would want them...

23 July 2013

The Benefits of Single-Sex Education

No matter how long you’ve been out of school, it’s still easy to picture what it looked like. The lockers in the hallway, the drama in the lunchroom, and the cute boys on the football team are images common to many, made even more memorable by the uncountable amount of movies that been set in high school.  Why...

21 June 2013

SAT & ACT Testing Dates: 2013-2014

All high school students need to take either the SAT or the ACT sometime during their student careers. To make it easy for you, we compiled a list of all the SAT and ACT test days in one place.   ** March 8th 2014 is an SAT test only. Subject tests are not available on that day. http://professionals.collegeboard.com/testing/sat-reasoning/register/test-dates !-- ...

14 May 2013

Story of Education - Student's Perspective

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19 April 2013

Expanding Your Horizons and Experiences for College

There are many ways you can prepare for college. However, the best piece of advice anyone can give you is to expand your horizons while you're still in high school. You give your college applications a boost by participating extracurricular activities, including world travel, volunteering and...

29 October 2012

How Helpful are College Rankings?

Every year, reports are released that rank colleges according to a multitude of factors and qualities.  US News & World Report, which publishes one of the most important and widely read of these rankings, charges almost 35 dollars for their yearly college ranking report, and prospective college...

12 October 2012

5 Educational Museums to Inspire Teens

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05 October 2012

SAT: The Ticket to a Great College

When it comes to college admissions, the SAT (or the ACT) is the one factor that can trump everything else. If you have lousy grades, low involvement and a lackluster application essay – but you have a 2300 on your SAT, colleges will still take interest in you. All colleges claim they “look at students...