May, 2022

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High School Families Should Start Planning Scholarships Now

College Aid Consulting Services

High school families should start planning for 2023 and 2024 scholarships now. Juniors should start applying for outside scholarships immediately. We know many students don’t even think about applying for these scholarships until they are into their senior year. Big mistake! For many of these sources of financial aid, the deadline will expire at that point.

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Committed to Beating the 4%?—?for Myself and Other Foster Youth

#RealCollege Blog

Committed to Beating the 3% — for Myself and Other Foster Youth By: Melvin Roy (he/him), Old Dominion University Editor’s note: A previous version of this post said 4% of foster youth successfully graduate college and has been corrected to 3%. So much has happened since I’ve started here at ODU which is why it is important that I share as much of my experience with you for you to understand how my college experience is in no way like the traditional ones you see.

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Mental Health Awareness Week 2022

Student Minds

Monday 9 May to Sunday 15 May marks Mental Health Awareness Week and this year's theme is 'loneliness'. The Editorial Team have come together to share their thoughts and experiences on feelings of loneliness as a student. - Student Minds Blog Editorial Team Mental Health Awareness Week takes place each year from the 9th to the 15th of May and this year the Mental Health Foundation has set the theme of 'loneliness'.

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Community Colleges Are More Important than Ever

Community College Review

The role of community colleges in the world of higher education has expanded over the years and, as the country works to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, they may be more important now than ever. Read on to learn more about the changing role of community colleges.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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Exciting news - get ready for the launch of the Knowledge Center!

Ready Education

Here at Ready Education, we are committed to world-class support for our customers. We proudly serve over 4.5 million students across more than 525 institutions in 21 countries.

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Is Now a Good Time to Invest in the Stock Market if You’re in College?

Scholly

You don’t need to be an investing pro to see it. Recently, the stock market has been struggling hard. People have lost a lot of money as a result. And it doesn’t look like things are gonna change anytime soon. Now, to the real investing pros, this is all normal. But, as someone in college who’s new to investing, you may be wondering…. Is now a good time to invest in the stock market?

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The Majority of College Students Need Emergency Aid. Their Professors Can Help, Fast

#RealCollege Blog

By: Randi Weingarten, American Federation of Teachers and Traci Kirtley, Believe in Students Jan Manla, a 23-year-old nursing student at Los Angeles Valley College, was Zooming with her school counselor this summer when the counselor noticed she was sweating, fanning herself, and hyperventilating. Manla was using her closet as a study, closing the door for privacy while her husband watched their four-year-old son.

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Math Strategies for Struggling Students

Tutor Ocean Corp

We can all agree that math is one of the courses that kids struggle with the most. Even children who eventually develop an affinity for numbers and patterns will struggle early on if they have a bad teacher. They may occasionally experience anxiety because of the high learning curve of the field. Here, we’ll go over the reasons why kids struggle with math and then dive into ways that you, as parents, can set up your children for success.

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How to Manage Your Stress While Attending Community College

Community College Review

We all feel stressed from time to time but, for many college students, the stress is never-ending. Keep reading to learn how to reduce and manage your stress in community college.

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Summer Learning Opportunities for Kids

Good Tutors Finder

Summer Learning Opportunities for Kids. The school bell may stop ringing, but summer is a great time for all kinds of summer learning opportunities for kids. Good Tutors Finder has packed a bag full of activities for teachers to help families get ready for summer and to launch students to fun, enriching summertime experiences. Ideas for active summer learning.

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Brag Colleges and More: The Year in Review

Counselors' Corner

by Patrick O'Connor, Ph.D. I don’t always write a summary column, but there were more than enough nuggets of newness this year to put together a list that makes you remember, consider, and prepare for next year. Test optional Many colleges have decided it’s time to go back to requiring the SAT or ACT simply because—well, they can. It’s frustrating that the test-no-test debate is based on intuition, and not data—if a college has evidence it needs a test, fine with me; otherwise, forget it.

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The Student Voice Series: How Institutions Can Better Support Students Experiencing Homelessness

Ready Education

Last Fall, Ready Education had the opportunity to connect with Annastacia Espinoza, a student from one of our partner schools who has experienced homelessness for the past two years. Her story, shared below, captures so many of the mostly unspoken challenges students in similar circumstances face. Annastacia writes about how she was vocal on campus about her experience being homeless.

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Limiting student debt relief based on income is a terrible idea and a technological disaster in the…

#RealCollege Blog

Limiting student debt relief based on income is a terrible idea and a technological disaster in the making. By: Bryce McKibben (he/him); The Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice In response to demands from voters, young people, and those struggling under the weight of student debt, President Biden has acknowledged that his Administration is seriously considering fulfilling a campaign promise to cancel student debt for millions of Americans through executive action.

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How to tutor online with Zoom

Tutor Ocean Corp

Since the COVID-19 pandemic pulled students away from their traditional method of learning, students, teachers, and parents had to adjust. Fortunately, the online video platform, Zoom, has helped with the difficult transition. However, this new type of learning environment has left many wondering if it really works or if students are struggling. To explore this issue, let’s take a look at how to conduct an effective Zoom tutoring session and the pros and cons of online learning.

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Can You Still Get into Community College with Bad Grades?

Community College Review

To a graduating high school senior, grades are everything. But how do colleges view bad grades and can you still get into college without a perfect GPA? Keep reading to find out.

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How our Online Summer School Helps Students to Reach Their Full Potential

Good Tutors Finder

How our Online Summer School Helps Students to Reach Their Full Potential. After the extended school year, students and parents welcome the start of summer vacation to relax and take a break. After about a week of summer vacation, though, many parents are scrambling to find ways to fill their student’s day with meaningful activities to avoid the dreaded “I’m bored!”.

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Teacher Retention: 3 Ways to Stop the Great Resignation

Thrive Alliance Group

Teacher retention is becoming a critical challenge for schools across the country, as a growing number of teachers are overburdened and burned out. Teachers are quitting not only their current jobs but their profession. This “great resignation” puts the education of an entire generation of students at risk. Not to mention the careers of an entire generation of teachers.

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Are we all lonely? How to manage feelings of loneliness and isolation

Lewermark Blog

In a time when we can instantly be connected to anyone in the world, why is loneliness and isolation at the forefront of our mental health conversations? Covid-19 isolation mandates, polarizing politics, and societal injustices have all caused feelings of uncertainty, anger, sadness and isolation. When our means of connection have changed so much in Read More.

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Announcing the Next Generation of Federal Student Loan Servicing

Department of Education Homeroom Blog

By: Richard Cordray, Chief Operating Officer, U.S. Department of Education’s office of Federal Student Aid Today, I’m pleased to announce that Federal Student Aid (FSA) posted the solicitation for what we’re calling the Unified Servicing and Data Solution (USDS). The USDS is the long-term loan servicing solution designed to provide federal student loan borrowers with.

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The Checklist for College-bound Juniors

Counselors' Corner

by Patrick O'Connor, Ph.D. With another year mostly behind us, it’s time to take what we learned after a ride on this year’s college-go-round and pass it on to juniors. Do let your interests, abilities, and needs guide your search for the colleges that are right for you. Do notice that last sentence said “colleges”, not “college”. Don’t think the rules for applying to college are the same as when your older sibling applied.

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Simple Tips for Bulking Up Your Community College Application

Community College Review

Though many people assume community college is easier than "real" college, you still need to have a strong application if you want to get in. Keep reading to learn more.

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What Is The Gaokao? (Plus 7 Sample Exam Questions And Their Full Solutions)

Tutor Ocean Corp

Every year, for two days in early June, a student’s harmony is more important than the economy. It’s so important that whole cities in every province in China lockdown. Traffic gets diverted away from exam centers to preserve the concentration of exam takers. It’s the largest exam in the world and it’s called the gaokao (高考).

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How to Build Student Confidence

Good Tutors Finder

How to Build Student Confidence. Writing a college application letter, taking an important test, delivering a presentation, or attending a job interview — any of these can be a life-changing moment. We all have been in situations in which performing well is essential to achieving our ultimate goals. These are the events we prepare for, run through the material back and forth, and dedicate lots of time and effort to hone everything to perfection.

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Teacher Retention: Stopping the Great Resignation

Thrive Alliance Group

Teacher retention is becoming a critical challenge for schools across the country, as a growing number of teachers are overburdened and burned out. Teachers are quitting not only their current jobs but their profession. This “great resignation” puts the education of an entire generation of students at risk. Not to mention the careers of an entire generation of teachers.

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Just Knowledge: Sharing Indigenous knowledge & Indigenous maps

Catherine Cronin

At last week’s Open Education Conference (OER22), I shared an update on my GO-GN Fellowship project Just Knowledge. ‘Just Knowledge’ is a community-focused open knowledge research project guided by three core ideals: justice, equity and openness. Four community initiatives in the west of Ireland are participating in the project. I invited feedback following a lightning presentation introducing the project, noting that one of the community partners, the Galway Traveller Movement (GTM), was partic

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Make a Difference? You bet!

Counselors' Corner

by Patrick O'Connor, Ph.D. I’ve written a couple of articles this year urging counselors to find ways to improve their work, without waiting for permission to do so. I love you all dearly, but we sometimes devote so much time talking about what’s wrong, we fail to take the next step and do something to fix it. Since I make such a big deal about that, it’s only fair I send a shoutout to a counselor who has not just thought outside the box, but stepped outside of it as well—and that leads me to Ly

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Why Congress Has Eliminated Community College Support for Convicted Criminals

Community College Review

Learn about how some convicted criminals abused community colleges' financial aid programs and why Congress has decided to prohibit criminals from being eligible for future aid.

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TutorOcean Launches New Mobile App to Make Tutoring Even Easier

Tutor Ocean Corp

TutorOcean updates its mobile tutoring app, making it even easier for learners and tutors to connect. May 11th, 2022 – Ottawa, Ontario, Canada – TutorOcean , one of North America’s fastest-growing tutoring marketplaces, announced today that they have updated their mobile apps on the Apple App and Google Play stores helping learners and tutors more easily connect.

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What’s the (hold) back?

NACAC's Admitted

iStock Students who go through the enrollment pipeline process, financial aid, and other related procedures will sometimes be faced with “holds,” specifically, administrative process holds. Administrators typically place holds on a student’s online account to urge them to act on a variety of specific tasks (much of which is guided by a federal or an institutional policy).

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The Top Reasons Why College Mobile Apps Fail

Ready Education

Does this sound familiar? After more than a year of development, the overworked IT department is finally ready to launch your campus app. The Marketing and Student Affairs departments team up to promote the long-awaited app to incoming students at orientation. Students download the app but instead of finding a smooth and engaging mobile campus experience, they find a buggy and slow reproduction of the school website.

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Exploring the World of STEM and What You Need to Know to Join It

Coastline College

STEM careers and the demand for them seem to grow exponentially with every day that passes. But what is STEM? Why is it important? What do I need to know to get a STEM-based job? Join me as I enlist the help of Coastline’s Dr. Tanya Hoerer and Dr. Paolo Varquez to explore all things STEM. Source: Shutterstock.

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College Counseling in Under 500 Words

Counselors' Corner

by Patrick O'Connor, Ph.D. Think you can’t help a student with little time? Hand them this, and watch what happens. (No, it isn’t perfect, but it’s a start). What is college? Most people think of college as a four-year experience, but that’s not the case at all. Take a look at these college options ; some may surprise you. How do I choose my college path?

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Why You Should Take Advantage of the Pell Grant

Community College Review

Learn about the millions of unclaimed Pell Grant dollars that could help fund your community college education. Find out if you qualify and how you can apply for the free funds.

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