Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Monday, June 30th, 2008
GlobalScholar has added another online directory for education; this time at the preschool level. We already help parents make educated decisions on where to send their child to grade school, and help high school graduates decide where to go to college, so why not help with early education as well?
So ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Gone are the days of stuffy lecture halls, uncomfortable plastic chairs and getting sneezed on by the sick kid behind you. Taking the classroom online has eliminated the need for snow days, the hassle of course scheduling and the spread of germs. E-learning is taking education to new heights and ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Technology was supposed to set us free. Bring the world together with the ability to communicate with anyone, anytime. MIT psychologist, Sherry Turkle believes that gadgets are ushering in major linguistic change, dominated by text-messaging or instant-messaging argot. She argues that Western Society is entering the age of “linguistic whateverism”. ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
No matter what your master plan for life is, if you are currently in college, your next move will inevitably involve searching for a job. This can be a confusing and stressful time for many graduates, as they struggle to determine what field of work they are interested in. Sure, ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
The 2008 presidential election made me interested in the educational pedigree of past Presidents of the United States. Analyzing the facts, I discovered eight presidents did not graduate from college, including William Harrison, Harry Truman, Zachary Taylor, Grover Cleveland, Andrew Johnson and Millard Fillmore. George W. Bush has obtained diplomas ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
1) Textbooks: The price of college textbooks has gone up 186% since 1986. Poor students have to pay inflated prices for books, which might be scarcely used. Book Finder allows you to compare prices on 125 million books from 4,000 sellers. It is easily the best website to score cheap ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
After scrambling to complete my taxes, I kept asking myself how Uncle Sam partitioned the 2007 tax haul, estimated at $2,072,116,000,000. Then I stumbled onto a website called the National Priorities Project (NPP), which illustrates tax dollar allocation with easy to read charts.
The NPP report reveals how the income ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
The U.S. Public Interest Research Group has released a study that reveals the banks aggressive marketing of credit cards for college students. 76% of students polled say they have been marketed, on or near campus, by credit card offers with sign up gifts, which range from t-shirts to iPods.
College represents ...
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Our foray into online education began with GlobalScholar, an online tutoring and homework help learning platform to connect parents and students to educators. When we built GlobalScholar.com, it was but a small glimpse into what as a company we wanted to bring to online education. With the launch of our ...
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