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What These Harvard Business School Interview Questions Can Teach You About Planning Your Future

Harvard Business School puts its candidates through a rigorous interview process. That’s part of the reason it has maintained one of the best reputations in the world for business education. But you don’t have to be going for a MBA to derive value from that rigorous process. In a recent article for Business Insider, contributor […]
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Turn Your Study Plan Into Action In 8 Steps

A study plan is essential for any student wanting to get ahead or conquer a particularly tricky concept. However, one can get so wrapped up in the planning that they have trouble putting it into action. If that sounds like you, then this is the article for you. Execution needs to be the primary focus […]
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Entrepreneurship And Education: 5 Ways Business Will Shape Learning

There seems to be a great deal of concern over how entrepreneurship and education today will work together as changes in public schools and universities become more rapid. There is an argument that says education is not a business where there is room for profits and losses. That everyone has a right to have an education […]
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The Hard Truth About Student Loans

A recent article on Entrepreneur from contributor Brandon Turner has ruffled more than a few feathers for the hard truth he lays out regarding student loans. The piece, entitled “Understand Something About Your Student Loans: They’re 100 Percent Your Fault,” states a reality that far too many students these days don’t wish to admit. Unfortunately, […]
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Teachers Should Teach With Movies More Than They Do, Columnist Says

Columnist Joe Mathews, whose Connecting California column is seen in Zócalo Public Square, recently penned an op-ed for SF Gate, where he poised an interesting challenge for the state’s teachers: teach with movies in class. “As our state considers new frameworks for how history and social science are taught, now is the time to incorporate […]
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37 A-Rated Public Colleges and Universities

The educational research company Niche compiles data and information on public colleges and universities, allowing users to sort and rank in a variety of different ways. Business Insider took this data and ran with it, delivering a recent post entitled “The best public college in every state.” Considering that there are 629 public four-year institutions […]
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10 Warnings No One Gives You Before College Graduation

College graduation. It is a time that brings with it a little excitement and a little apprehension. You have the rest of your life ahead of you, so it’s time to take what you’ve learned and put it all together to figure out who you’re going to be for the next 50 or 60 years. […]
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10 Ways A Students Think Differently Than Everyone Else

‘A’ Students are cut from a different cloth. While you may be able to point to some on this list and state, “But I know Fred’s an ‘A’ Student and this doesn’t sound like him at all!,” it’s a list we’ll nevertheless stand behind. Why? Because anyone can have a good year or two; it […]
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President Obama’s $4 Billion Computer Science Initiative: Pros and Cons

President Obama has just unfurled a new $4 billion proposal to make sure that every student is given a foundation for computer science education in their studies. While the plan is an ambitious one with a good cause — he’s right that computer science will be a necessity in the job world of tomorrow — […]
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Rosetta Stone, Other Language Learning Tips

Rosetta Stone has been a godsend for many with the desire to become other language learners later in life. After all, the American education system is still backward in the sense that it doesn’t teach other languages to children when their minds are most susceptible to it, instead waiting until high school when most of […]
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