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Here’s a compilation of some of the best blogs and websites that will help keep you up-to-date on health care topics—and possibly keep you a step ahead of your peers when you enroll in a health-care program. The Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants’ blog is a worthy read by itself, and also links to a collection of additional blogs written by PAs. Health News Review—From the University of Minnesota, a weekly roundup of the best- and lowest-quality media coverage of health topics. PubMed is one of the most comprehensive medical sites on the web, with links to...
If you’re new to online learning, you’ll quickly find it’s essential to know the ins and outs of using the educational software, in particular, the discussion board feature. If you don’t, you might alienate yourself from fellow classmates, irritate your professor, or worse—miss an important assignment. As I’ve worked on my master’s degree online, I’ve encountered several discussion-board snafus committed by fellow students, and made some goofs myself. To save yourself from facing the same fate, check out the following tips. They’re based on Blackboard, one of the more popular discussion-board programs used in online courses across the country. 1....
President Obama has been making heated calls on Congress to prevent interest rates on federally-subsidized Stafford student loans from doubling this summer. This week, he cooled it down a notch in a “Slow Jam the News” segment on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Obama – or the Barackness Monster, as Fallon called him – kept his tone serious during the five-minute jam. “On July 1 of this year, the interest rate on Stafford student loans – the same loans that many of you use to pay for college – are set to double. That means some hard-working students will be...
Last year, I found myself back in the classroom after several years in the workforce, taking science classes to prepare for veterinary school. I quickly discovered I wasn’t ready for the mind-boggling buying options and jaw-dropping textbook prices I encountered at the college bookstore. My confusion usually begins once I register online for classes and am given a way to look up required texts. The textbook’s full title and 9- or 13-digit ISBN number (International Standard Book Number, usually listed by the bar code) may or may not be noted. Two or more identical-seeming options may be marked as “required.”...
At last … if you’re one of the millions of students who go to college part-time or transfer to a new school, the feds who track graduation rates are going to quit ignoring you. This week, the U.S. Department of Education announced it will soon start adding part-time and transfer students to its tricky graduation-rate calculus. Just how soon remains to be seen. The Chronicle of Higher Education rightly points out that this overhaul is not going to be easy: “Now begins the arduous task of figuring out exactly how to capture those transfer and part-time students in the data-collection...
Going back to school takes dedication. Fears about not having the time, money or energy–or all of the above–to get your degree can keep you stuck in a rut, especially if your schedule is already packed with family and work responsibilities. But if you’re paying close attention, you may find glimmers of hope in unlikely places, such as in reports about trends like high dropout rates. The American Enterprise Institute, a conservative public policy think tank, has done some interesting number-crunching on the issue of low graduation rates at the country’s community colleges. First the bad news. Researchers found: Only...
Seth Godin is a marketing guru who’s known for the Technicolor ties and shirts he wears during conference panels and press appearances. He’s also a very colorful writer adept at promoting his books—and he’s written 12 bestsellers, including “Linchpin: Are You Indispensible?” and “Tribes.” Most of his latest manifesto, “Stop Stealing Dreams,” rips the American K-12 education system, saying it’s failed to evolve from its roots—when it was “invented to create a constant stream of compliant factory workers to the growing businesses of the 1900s.” He doesn’t think much of the traditional higher-education system, either–saying too many colleges don’t amount...
Whether you’re thinking about going back to school, or paying the slightest attention to national news, you’ve surely heard that student loan debt in America has grown to gargantuan proportions. Estimates vary, with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau reporting that America’s outstanding debt in private and federal student loans appears to have topped the $1 trillion mark. Sobering news—especially if you’re currently trying to figure out how you’re going to pay for school. Consumer Reports just released some helpful tips about keeping student debt in check, including: Starting out with small repayment amounts that increase every couple of years. Signing...
There’s no reason to fear the quantitative section of the GRE—not when technology’s here to help. No, we’re not talking about sneaking in a graphing calculator. The latest in study strategies is right there in your pocket or purse: your smartphone. Test prep apps are everywhere, and they’re great tools to help you prep for the test. Streamline your app hunt with a targeted search Just doing a quick search on Macworld or iTunes will bring up dozens of results, so where should you start? One tip is to look for apps from the already established test preparation companies. Another...
For students thinking about graduate school, just a mention of the GRE—the Graduate Record Examination—and faces will blanch, knuckles whiten, and stomachs turn at the thought this hurdle in the grad-school application process. There’s no need to panic, though. An unexpected source of relief for text anxiety is right at your fingertips. Study smarter with smartphone apps Forget lugging around those hefty test-prep tomes full of vocabulary words, or stacks of messy index cards. All you need is a smartphone, and you can download everything from electronic flash cards to practice tests. If you have an iPad, there are test...
Almost one-third of all students transfer schools at some point during their post-high school education, according to a new report by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, a nonprofit organization based just outside Washington, D.C. With a demographic that big, you’d think the higher education system would’ve figured out a way to keep track of them all from start to finish. Nope. “Standard institution-based reporting tends to ignore these students … focusing only on those who enter as first-time freshmen and treating students who do not receive a degree from their first institution as dropouts,” the report says. In other...
More aspiring graduate students took the GRE last year than ever before: a record 800,000 worldwide. Perhaps you’re one of them. Maybe you’re cramming for it now. Unless you thrive on the thrill of crazy intense competition, taking a standardized test can be an anxiety-fraught process. But here are 4 steps to triumphing over that nervousness. Step 1: How anxious are you? The first step in tackling that anxiety, is asking yourself just how anxious you are, says Mark Wahl, a math learning specialist who teaches a GRE prep course in Seattle. At the start of every course, Wahl asks...
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