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The purpose of the articles on this page is to give parents of college-bound students, military personnel considering or already pursuing a degree, and ESOs a broader view of higher education options and topics than they can find in the much touted U.S. News & World Report annual college rankings. They're from various sources, grouped into rough categories.

Choosing a School

College transfers can muddy quality of experience Ivy League vs. state school – Will an expensive school really pay off in the long run with a better job?	Is an undergraduate degree from an elite private college worth the cost? The College For-Profits Should Fear

College transfers can muddy quality of experience

Ivy League vs. state school – Will an expensive school really pay off in the long run with a better job?

Is an undergraduate degree from an elite private college worth the cost?

The College For-Profits Should Fear

Financing College

$790 Million in New Grants for College Students Available How to save thousands on student loans	Education Expenses = Tax Credits The Subprime Student Loan Racket

$790 Million in New Grants for College Students Available

How to save thousands on student loans

Education Expenses = Tax Credits

The Subprime Student Loan Racket

Measuring Quality of Higher Education

Is Our Students Learning? Measuring What Matters	Higher Ed's Bermuda Triangle How the Other Half Tests

Is Our Students Learning?

Measuring What Matters

Higher Ed's Bermuda Triangle

How the Other Half Tests

Success in College

New IT literacy test may benefit students, colleges 4 Smart Ways to Boost Your Teen’s SAT Score (for Less)	Complex reading is key to college success Admired, Not Read

New IT literacy test may benefit students, colleges

4 Smart Ways to Boost Your Teen’s SAT Score (for Less)

Complex reading is key to college success

Admired, Not Read

Community College

America's Best Community Colleges	The College that was Built to Teach

America's Best Community Colleges

The College that was Built to Teach

Professional School (business, law, medicine, etc.)

The Management Myth: Most of management theory is inane; If you want to succeed in business, don’t get an M.B.A.	The Interplay Between Law School Rankings, Reputations, and Resource Allocation: Ways Rankings Mislead The Creation of Legal Dependency: Law School in a Nutshell

The Management Myth: Most of management theory is inane; If you want to succeed in business, don’t get an M.B.A.

The Interplay Between Law School Rankings, Reputations, and Resource Allocation: Ways Rankings Mislead

The Creation of Legal Dependency: Law School in a Nutshell

Teaching

What Makes a Great Teacher? A Note on Teach for America	Building a Better Teacher

What Makes a Great Teacher?

A Note on Teach for America

Building a Better Teacher

Marketing Higher Education

The Marketing of the Colleges The Big Payoff: Educational Attainment and Synthetic Estimates of Work-Life Earnings	Colleges' Hottest New Major: Terror – Campuses Altering Courses, Tapping Into Homeland Security Funds The No-Frills Campus

The Marketing of the Colleges

The Big Payoff: Educational Attainment and Synthetic Estimates of Work-Life Earnings

Colleges' Hottest New Major: Terror – Campuses Altering Courses, Tapping Into Homeland Security Funds

The No-Frills Campus

For-Profit Colleges & Universities

Leveling the Field: What I learned from for-profit education For-Profit Colleges Target the Military Steve Eisman's Next Big Short: For-Profit Colleges Undercover Probe Finds Lax Academic Standards at Some For-Profit Colleges	Demographics Do Not Explain For-Profit Colleges’ Shortcomings on Student-Success Measures, GAO Says Study Finds Mixed Results for Students Attending For-Profit Colleges

Leveling the Field: What I learned from for-profit education

For-Profit Colleges Target the Military

Steve Eisman's Next Big Short: For-Profit Colleges

Undercover Probe Finds Lax Academic Standards at Some For-Profit Colleges

Demographics Do Not Explain For-Profit Colleges’ Shortcomings on Student-Success Measures, GAO Says

Study Finds Mixed Results for Students Attending For-Profit Colleges

Learning a New Language

Learning to Speak a Language from Day One	The 5 Ways We Learn Languages – and Which Style Is Right for You

Learning to Speak a Language from Day One

The 5 Ways We Learn Languages – and Which Style Is Right for You

Miscellaneous

The Missing Middle: Aligning Education and the Knowledge Economy Penn State's President Warns of Coming Crisis in U.S. Education The Health of E-learning: Sickly or Soaring? Big jobs that pay badly College grads back in demand The Next Starbucks? How massage went from the strip club to the strip mall Multipurpose e-Portfolios: Catalysts for Lifelong Learning Ownership The Drama of the Gifted Parent The Early-Decision Racket Confessions of a Prep School College Counselor How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America Administrators Ate My Tuition Is Our Students Earning?	Is AP too good to be true? Critics fear the rapid spread of Advanced Placement classes is diluting quality Commercialization of Education Few high school grads ready for college Grade inflation takes a toll on students Justified Jargon: Yet Another New Word for a Serious Reality – (employers moving away from highly specialized workers to employees who are more agile in changing environments and who possess more breadth as well as depth of knowledge) 2-Year Start on the Future 3 Most Common Education Questions College for $99 a Month Inside the Higher Ed Lobby Failure to Launch The End of College Admissions as We Know It Asleep at the Seal

The Missing Middle: Aligning Education and the Knowledge Economy

Penn State's President Warns of Coming Crisis in U.S. Education

The Health of E-learning: Sickly or Soaring?

Big jobs that pay badly

College grads back in demand

The Next Starbucks? How massage went from the strip club to the strip mall

Multipurpose e-Portfolios: Catalysts for Lifelong Learning Ownership

The Drama of the Gifted Parent

The Early-Decision Racket

Confessions of a Prep School College Counselor

How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America

Administrators Ate My Tuition

Is Our Students Earning?

Is AP too good to be true? Critics fear the rapid spread of Advanced Placement classes is diluting quality

Commercialization of Education

Few high school grads ready for college

Grade inflation takes a toll on students

Justified Jargon: Yet Another New Word for a Serious Reality – (employers moving away from highly specialized workers to employees who are more agile in changing environments and who possess more breadth as well as depth of knowledge)

2-Year Start on the Future

3 Most Common Education Questions

College for $99 a Month

Inside the Higher Ed Lobby

Failure to Launch

The End of College Admissions as We Know It

Asleep at the Seal

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