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Incorporating Lynda into College Curriculum Would Help Students Choose a Career

Incorporating Lynda into College Curriculum Would Help Students Choose a Career

February 11, 2016

Let's face it: College is expensive. Anything schools can do to reduce the time students spend obtaining a degree and the amount of money students pay would be greatly appreciated. One reason students...

Challenging Classes Should Not Be Toned Down to Please Students

Challenging Classes Should Not Be Toned Down to Please Students

January 25, 2016

"No Pain, No Gain" is a well-known saying that could and should be applied to education. In education, pain means dealing with terms or concepts students are unfamiliar with, that they have to reach and...

American Education System Needs to Emphasize Essentials to Improve National Health, Success

American Education System Needs to Emphasize Essentials to Improve National Health, Success

January 13, 2016

Cooking is more important than calculus. How heavily stressed are essential life skills in our schools? Many of us know that sexual education in the United States is laughable, and in states like Utah...

Increasing Demand for College Degree in Job Market Puts More Pressure on Young People

Increasing Demand for College Degree in Job Market Puts More Pressure on Young People

December 4, 2015

Thanksgiving break is a time for being with family, giving thanks, sharing holiday joy with the less fortunate and, of course, catching up with the friends who have come back home from college. I'm sure...

Making Colleges Free Nationwide Would Boost the U.S. Economy

Making Colleges Free Nationwide Would Boost the U.S. Economy

December 2, 2015

In today's economy, a bachelor's degree is an integral part of being successful and earning money. Most well-paying jobs require a degree, and as a result, people who don't have a college degree are restricted...

Society's Overemphasis on Competition and Success Makes Students Ill, Unhappy

Society’s Overemphasis on Competition and Success Makes Students Ill, Unhappy

November 27, 2015

Most of us are all too aware that finals are just around the corner. As we progress through our collegiate academic careers, many of us undergrads will be thinking about graduate school – law, medicine,...

Homeschooling Needs More Gov't Regulation in Order to Promote Child Safety

Homeschooling Needs More Gov’t Regulation in Order to Promote Child Safety

November 17, 2015

One of the most important stages of development happens during childhood, oftentimes in school, when children can interact with peers and teachers of different backgrounds. Receiving a proper education...

Universities Need to stop Discriminating Against Students with Psychiatric Disorders

By Aaron Clark July 9, 2015

Brown. Georgetown. Duke. Princeton. There is a definite aura of prestige and respect when names like these are brought into conversation. But these elite universities have recently been reprimanded for...

Education needs to be about learning rather than grades

July 6, 2015

Education is changing.The percentage of graduating high school students who move on to attend college has risen above 50 percent. The value of an associate degree is declining, and graduate school is becoming...

Like all wide-spread traumatic events, finals week brings people together

April 21, 2015

It seems like every college student dreads finals — and for good reason. It’s a time of very few (if any) hours of sleep, a diet consisting of Redbull and coffee and not much time for the ideal...