by Cindy | Oct 19, 2016 | College Preparation, Educational Achievement, Personal Growth
And where students who borrow end up with much less debt than the national average. Although the average college student is borrowing more every year, dozens of colleges have such low tuition, or such generous financial aid, that most of their graduates leave school...
by Cindy | Oct 19, 2016 | Educational Achievement, Personal Growth, Reading Comprehension
When I assigned an 800-page biography of Andrew Carnegie for a new undergraduate course on wealth and poverty at George Mason University a few years ago, I wasn’t sure the students would actually read it. Not only did most of them make it to the end, however, but many...
by Cindy | Oct 19, 2016 | College Preparation, Educational Achievement, Personal Growth, Reading Comprehension, Technology, Test Taking, The Right Read Blog
Even with Facebook, Netflix and other digital distractions increasingly vying for time, Americans’ appetite for reading books — the ones you actually hold in your hands — has not slowed in recent years, according to a study by the Pew Research Center.Sixty-five...
by Cindy | Oct 18, 2016 | College Preparation, Educational Achievement, Personal Growth, Reading Comprehension, Test Taking
Anton Oberländer is a persuasive speaker. Last year, when he and a group of friends were short of cash for a camping trip to Cornwall, he managed to talk Germany’s national rail operator into handing them some free tickets. So impressed was the management with his...
by Cindy | Sep 8, 2016 | Educational Achievement, Personal Growth
As kids return to school, debate is heating up once again over how they should spend their time after they leave the classroom for the day.The no-homework policy of a second-grade teacher in Texas went viral last week, earning praise from parents across the country...
by Cindy | Sep 8, 2016 | Educational Achievement, Personal Growth
On a summer day in 1968, professor Julian Stanley met a brilliant but bored 12-year-old named Joseph Bates. The Baltimore student was so far ahead of his classmates in mathematics that his parents had arranged for him to take a computer-science course at Johns Hopkins...