Latest Stories
Most recently published stories in Education.
Could Studying Abroad Be the Right Move for You?
Taking the leap and deciding to study abroad can be exciting, but it may also feel a little intimidating. However, studying abroad can come with many benefits and opportunities, from getting to travel to learning about new cultures. If you think studying abroad could be right for you, here are a few things it may be helpful to consider.
By Dennis McKonkie6 years ago in Education
Preparing for Your SAT
There is a saying that says, “practice makes perfect.” When it comes to testing you can never practice enough. The SAT is one of the most important tests you will take for entering a college or university. Many people will take in in their junior or senior year of high school. This allows them to take it more than once. If you take the test more than once, you can better prepare and perhaps score higher the second time. When you receive a higher score, it can open the door to attending a variety of different schools. Here are eight ways you can prepare yourself to get the best possible SAT score.
By Paisley Hansen6 years ago in Education
Why You Should Consider Going Back to School
In the United States nearly 40 percent of working-aged Americans hold a college degree. That means that almost 60 percent don’t have a degree. This can be an alarming statistic for a lot of people. There is a trend of people getting more degrees than they did before. People are increasingly getting more education as new generations come of age. If you have already come and gone from college. Regardless of how you ended your college journey, you can gain lots of permanent value from returning to college at any point. Here are a few reasons why you can’t afford not to and how to go about it.
By James Robinson6 years ago in Education
Top Things to Avoid While Doing Coursework
Coursework writing is an important part of the education process for any student. Most of the students find coursework a challenging task because even when they do their best in research and writing, they don’t score good marks accordingly. This creates fear among them for their performance in further coursework. If they closely view their work, there might be certain things which hampered the quality of the work and affected their academic work as well as career.
By Olivia James6 years ago in Education
How Charts Lie: Introduction and Chapter 1 Response
This semester I decided to take a class titled 'Introduction to Infographics and Data Visualization,' which specializes in interpreting and creating infographics to accompany educational projects or articles. The first reading for the class is titled How Charts Lie by Alberto Cairo, and the main idea of the book is explaining how political, public, and general figures either intentionally or unintentionally misread charted graphics for their personal gain. The book's introduction begins with several graphics illustrated from the 2016 Presidential Election, including this controversial image of the Electoral College votes. The key reason for bringing up the election concerned the fact that President Trump and his colleagues tend to falsify the actual results from the election, using misleading charts to convince the American people that they won by a landslide. In reality they actually lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton, and only won the election via the electoral college where the states with the higher number of representatives voted in his favor. Cairo further explains throughout the remainder of the introduction into the first chapter how it's immensely important that people in such a technical world have a clear sense of graphicacy (graphic literacy), meaning that they can correctly interpret the thousands of charts found around news media daily. Another notion Cairo mentions to help facilitate chart interpretation is making sure that the artists make regional proportions correct to their statistics; this means that if a city, like Miami, FL, has a population of 2.7 million people, while a city, like Los Angeles, CA, has a population of 10 million people, the graphic depicting LA should be nearly four times the size of Miami's representative graphic.
By Maya Abrams6 years ago in Education
What To Look Forward To In Educational Tech in 2020
There is heightened optimism regarding improved and more reliable and responsive gadgets that have a huge positive impact in the field of academe. These educational tech gadgets are meant to improve the way students learn and the way teachers deliver their lesson plans.
By Jennifer Billington6 years ago in Education
Learn Arabic online
As more and more people are embracing the idea of global citizenship, learning a new language became a necessity. Regardless of the reasons (leisure, work, personal development), we can all agree that acquiring a new language skill will always prove to be useful. People say that learning a new language opens new doors for you, and as a Czech proverb goes: “You live a new life for every new language you speak. If you know only one language, you live only once.” Arabic is the 5th spoken language worldwide, with 422 million speakers.
By Kaleela Arabic6 years ago in Education
Camping in January
When I was a senior in high school, I took a weekend college class run by the local college on winter wilderness survival. It was held at a camp located in the Southern Colorado Rocky Mountains at an elevation of about 9000 feet above sea level. It was a cold, snowy three days in January. January, my friends, we were camping in January!
By Morgan Alber6 years ago in Education
Thomas More the Renaissance Man
A Renaissance Man is known as a very clever “jack of all trades” with an interest in humanism. It is very few and far between that, you find one and even harder to prove it. So this begs the question, is Saint Sir Thomas More a Renaissance Man? The answer is yes, Saint Sir Thomas More was, in fact, a Renaissance Man through More’s theology, humanistic works, and fields of study/work.
By Lilli Behom6 years ago in Education
