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by ALISTAIR BOMPHRAYA few months back, I wrote about the challenge of getting students into college—specifically the challenge of coaching them through the college application process. Now by the grace of Athena (not to mention those poor souls whose job it is to review so many thousands of mind-numbing applications) it’s payoff time. For the ...

Where do they think of these questions?

by ALISTAIR BOMPHRAYTeachers in the house—raise your hand if you’ve ever imagined yourself as some kind of Sisyphus, eternally pushing that rock up the hill and watching it roll right back down again.The myth itself seems suspiciously like the brainchild of some burned out ancient prof on his way home from the Lyceum. Year after year of ...

This post is to let you know about a new website that launched a few weeks ago.  It's called Book of Odds and is located at http://www.bookofodds.com.Book of Odds is the world’s first reference on the odds of everyday life. It is a destination where people come to learn about the things that worry or excite them, to read engaging and ...

Through No Excuses University, Laurel Golden's 4th/5th grade class chose the University of Southern California. As a member of the USC Alumni Club of the North Bay, I walked into her class yesterday with a box of USC t-shirts (donated by the USC Alumni Assoc.) for her students. They jumped up, put the t-shirts on over their clothes and ...

For more than three years, I have been teaching math to both urban students and students learning English as a Second Language. While there's plenty of material for ESL teachers, history teachers, and even science teachers on techniques for increasing language development in content areas, there isn't a whole lot out there for the mathematics ...

It's been since 1987 at Disneyland that I've been encouraging kids, students and faculty with Smart Actions Sports & Music Productions. Its proven to me that the abilities that we have as pro athletes and entertainers that our impact is a direct result in kids staying in school, abstaining from sex, drugs, alcohol, violance, and also staying ...

The following was posted on The Chronicle site today and has kicked-off a lively discussion. Web 2.0 Classroom Versus Learning By: Josh Fischman There were some skeptics here this morning at The Chronicle Technology Forum, listening to a talk called “Building the Classroom of the Future: From iTunes to Twitter.” Some in the audience seemed ...

Last week, the Chicago Tribune reported a scholarship idea that struck me as something with real potential to make big change. Illinois state rep Mike Boland is proposing a plan that gets to kids early and makes college a realistic expectation. In Boland's proposal, 8th graders and their families would sign a pledge that the student would maintain ...

States are making little or no progress in providing affordable college opportunities or improving college completion rates for their residents, says a report released today by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education. The findings come as states face massive budget shortfalls that threaten higher-education funding, and the U.S. ...