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Don’t Suck the Fun Out of Campus Visits
Jay Mathews from the Washington Post gives this stellar advice to prospective college students and their hyper parents: Look for fun, not facts, on your campus visits. That’s crazy talk! That Jay guy...
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Maybe It’s Better Not to Know What Kids Think
It’s cringe-y and funny and it just upset me and made me laugh until I snurfed green tea out my nose. I think you should read it too. Chag Holland is Cynical Dad and he is capable of making your day...
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Scholarship Advice From the Scholarship Coach
Tuition rates, in case you’ve missed it, have reached new and astonishingly execrable heights. Paying for college is like some kind of monetary gauntlet. Don’t make your folks do it alone—apply for as...
View ArticleTightly Wound Parental Units
Canadian PSAs informing parents that they should refrain from pressuring their sport-playing kids work perfectly for illustrating American parents and the twisted ritual of demanding 4.0 GPAs from...
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Massive Guilt Expected From High School Drop-Outs
Thinking of being a high school drop-out when you grow up? Please won’t you first consider the role you’ll be playing in taking society down to its knees: Brought to you by Teacher Certification Map...
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Secret SAT Scores
One family has managed to get it right—or do it well or actively walk away from being total whack jobs when it comes to dealing with their children’s higher education situations or whatever. However...
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Homework-Free Society
Born too late for the homework-free society Race to Nowhere is bringing on? Sucks to be you. And me, I might add. Where in the hell was filmmaker Vicki Abeles when I was a wee slip of a thing, playing...
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Get Smart About Choosing A College
It turns out parents and students are less than rational when it comes to choosing institutions of higher learning for the prospective college student’s matriculation. Paying for the education venture...
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How To Avoid Graduating College Summa Cum Debt
Pamela Yellen over at the Huffington Post gives advice on How to Avoid Graduating College Summa Cum Debt. I’ve read dozens of articles on this topic over the years and none have irked me and impressed...
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College Fund: Not the First Priority
The one thing no one tells new parents: Maybe don’t start shoveling aside the gargantuan pile of cash your kid will need for college. The one thing people never fail to ask new parents, after Girl or...
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