Some parents want to control their children's lives.  I remember going to my first college parent meeting.  We were told that it was time to back off and let our kids sink or swim.  The leader of the meeting politely informed us that we were not allowed to call professors and discuss the progress of our young adults.  If we ...

During school and college, I had a difficult time finding the help I needed from teachers and tutors.  Therefore, I developed the website www.helpmetutors.com, where students can search tutors, and tutors and teachers can post their study related materials.  The purpose of the study is to help students with their studies and help ...

It does not come as a surprise to me that researchers are confirming that test anxiety can play a factor in test results.  Although they are just talking about the subject of math, I think those of us who freak out over tests of any kind limit our chances of doing our best.  I once sat for thirty minutes unable to even think about ...

Have students gone AP Happy?  Are they racking up too many AP Courses?  On washingtonpost.com, the issue of too much AP was brought up in the annual AP report to the nation.  How many Advanced Placement courses are too many? Here in the Washington area hotbed of AP mania, the College Board today for the first time ...

In an effort to increase state money flowing to universities, Rick Perry, the governor of Texas, has outlined a plan that ties funds to students graduating from college earlier and willing to pursue high demand engineering and computer degrees. The money, a net increase of $1.7 billion over two years for schools, also would be ...

It was reported on nytimes.com that some students had to learn the hard way that mistakes can hurt.  The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill informed 2,700 students by email that they had been accepted to the university.  Someone pushed the send button a bit too soon.  Only some of the 2,700 applicants will actually be ...

Students are actively working towards gaining admittance into prestigious public high schools around the country.  On washingtonpost.com the story of thirteen year old Nathan Saunders is one of a young man who is working extremely hard to gain admittance to the science and technology program at Eleanor Roosevelt in Greenbelt.  His ...