A new kind of school crafted by the minds and wallets of Silicon Valley influencers is struggling to keep parents happy and students in seats. AltSchool shuttered more than half of the schools it’s opened since 2013. Parents of former and current students at AltSchool told Business Insider the startup treats their children like “guinea […]
If you want to be the CEO of a powerful company, choosing the right college major is an important place to start. We took a look at the leaders of the top 11 companies in this year’s Fortune 500, and by and large, they each majored in a field directly related to industry of their […]
Here are 12 everyday phrases you might be saying incorrectly: Incorrect: I could care less Correct: I couldn’t care less Incorrect: One in the same Correct: One and the same Incorrect: On accident Correct: By accident Incorrect: Wreck havoc Correct: Wreak havoc Incorrect: For all intensive purposes Correct: For all intents and purposes Incorrect: Should […]
Advances in machine learning now mean that doctors can take a photo and identify the disease or condition depicted. Apple is a fan of one specific app, VisualDx, that uses new machine learning software to assist with diagnosis on an iPhone. VisualDx has built a database of 32,000 high-quality medical images. Apple CEO Tim Cook […]
Flying offers the opportunity to disconnect from the internet — unless you pay for it — and turn your mind off from the constant barrage of phone notifications. Why not spend that time getting smarter on a topic you’ve always wanted to learn more about. With that in mind, Business Insider found seven smart books […]
Student loan debt continues to be a huge burden for many Americans. Graduates in the Northeast have more debt on average, while those in the Southwest had the least on average. Families in the Northeast tend to spend more on college than those in other parts of the country. Student loan debt continues to be […]
Ohio State University suspended 37 fraternities, pointing to hazing and alcohol violations. No sororities were suspended. Eleven fraternities had been under investigation since the start of the school year. The Ohio State University suspended 37 fraternities organizations from campus Thursday, citing instances of hazing and alcohol, WOSU Public Media reported. The suspension includes any social […]
English majors are surprisingly well-represented in US medical schools. They have a higher acceptance rate than applicants coming from science backgrounds. And it’s not necessarily the case that English easier than biology or chemistry. There’s a decent chance your doctor didn’t study biology, chemistry, or any other science when they first got to college. A […]
A 20-year-old Texas State University fraternity pledge died Monday. Texas State suspended all Greek organization activities. It is the fourth fraternity pledge to die in 2017. Texas State University on Tuesday suspended the activities of all Greek organizations following the death of a pledge — the second such death at a college fraternity in a […]
A 5.4 magnitude earthquake rocked South Korea, damaging school buildings. As a result, South Korea’s schools postponed the college entrance exams, which are highly competitive and essentially shut down the entire nation. After a magnitude 5.4 earthquake near Pohang, South Korea, shook the nation and damaged some school buildings, the country decided to postpone its […]
Ad Astra School was created in 2014 by Elon Musk. There are very few details about the school and no public website. Elon Musk hasn’t spoken publicly about the school since 2015. Elon Musk pulled his five kids out their prestigious school for gifted children school in 2014, and launched the secretive Ad Astra School. […]
Billionaire investor and LinkedIn cofounder credits part of his success to his unusual high school education in Vermont. At the Putney School, manual labor is taken as seriously as academic work. Hoffman struggled socially, but learned to approach life outside of traditional career paths. At the Putney School in Vermont, graduating students customize their diplomas, […]
Peter Thiel is offering a $10,000 fellowship to young entrepreneurs who drop out of college. While it’s tempting, Scott Galloway reveals why it is awful advice. Following is a transcription of the video. Scott Galloway. Professor of marketing, NYU Stern. Despite how outrageously expensive college is, it’s still a pretty good plan B. If a […]
The Pennsylvania district attorney filed new charges against fraternity brothers in the death of a Penn State pledge. Deleted video surveillance was recovered. The video allegedly shows brothers giving a pledge 18 drinks in 90 minutes. The Pennsylvania district attorney announced new charges in the death of Penn State sophomore Tim Piazza, who died in […]
Foreign student enrollment in American colleges declined an average 7% for the 2016-2017 school year. Higher education experts worried a “Trump effect” would cause a decline in foreign enrollment. Many foreign families ask if everyone in America own a gun. Foreign student enrollment at American colleges is down, The New York Times reported. A survey […]
Denmark has a term for people who don’t graduate in the normal five-year track: eternity students. Because Danish students receive a monthly grant and pay no tuition, some feel compelled to move through their studies without thinking about the future. A 2015 amendment made it easier for universities to push students through, but the trend […]
A growing number of students are turning to dating sites to find Sugar Daddies and Mommas for help with college costs. Christina, a 29-year-old Sugar Baby and MBA student living in Las Vegas, talked to Business Insider about her experience. She’s received over $90,000 for education-related costs, but says the stigma is the hardest part […]
Jeff Bezos and his wife MacKenzie use Singapore math to teach their kids mathematics. It’s an approach used predominantly in South Asia. Singapore outperformed all other countries on a worldwide math exam. Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO and richest person in the world, has amassed his wealth by being creative and trying out unorthodox solutions to […]
Learning a second language has been proven to offer a swath of cognitive, health, and educational benefits. It improves brain development, can protect against dementia, and help with attention span. And Mandarin seems to be the hot language at the moment, with some high-profile wealthy families starting to push the language to their kids at […]
There’s a great deal of uncertainty for college students when it comes to picking a major — in part because some jobs won’t be in high demand four years down the line. But according to career site Zippia, which used US census data to estimate the unemployment rate for people 22 to 25 years old […]
Goldman Sachs is on a mission to become the Google of Wall Street. A case study on Goldman Sachs’ digital strategy was presented as part of an executive MBA class at Harvard Business School last week. The study details the tension that this strategy has caused, and the payoffs. Goldman Sachs’ effort to become the […]
Reid Hoffman’s dad, mom, grandmother and grandfather all attended the University of California-Berkeley. When he chose Stanford University it caused a “firestorm.” He knew he would thrive in a smaller college setting. Reid Hoffman, cofounder of LinkedIn and a Greylock Partners investor, defied his whole family when he made his college choice. Eschewing tradition, he […]
Seven Ivy League football teams — Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton and Yale — could tie for first place. The conference doesn’t have an end-of-season tournament to determine a sole winner. It would be the first time in Ivy League history that seven teams tied. With two weeks left in the Ivy League football […]
Florida State has indefinitely suspended the school’s 55 fraternities and sororities following the death of a pledge. In a separate incident, a student was charged for the sale and trafficking of cocaine. Many colleges and universities are grappling with hazing deaths, and seeking solutions to tamp down on abuse. Florida State University indefinitely suspended the […]
WeWork, a $20 billion startup that leases trendy millennial-friendly office spaces around the world, is getting into the business of childhood education. A spinoff called “WeGrow” will open its first school in New York City in fall 2018. The startup hopes to expand from one school to many globally. Students in the WeGrow pilot program […]
Deep Springs College is a two-year school with only 12 to 15 students per class. Student attend for free, but must work 20 hours a week to pay their way. Students hold jobs on the farm and ranch, and cook, clean, and maintain vehicles. Deep Springs College is a tiny 30-person-or-less school located in the […]
Sheryl Sandberg worked for the US Secretary of Treasury before she moved into the tech sector. She struggled to find a job at first. “I would never hire anyone like you,” Sandberg was told in an interview. Sheryl Sandberg, current chief operating officer of Facebook and founder of leanin.org, wasn’t always at the top of […]
House GOP leaders released sweeping tax legislation on Thursday. Colleges and universities will pay a 1.4% excise tax on their endowment investment income if the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” is passed. It’s a big change from the current system, where college endowments are not taxed. College and university endowments will be taxed under the […]
Phillips Academy doesn’t offer the AP program. Andover was a founding AP school in the 1950s. School administrators say that teaching to the AP isn’t the best way of teaching. Phillips Academy, a boarding school in Andover, Massachusetts, that is often pegged as the best high school in America, doesn’t believe in the Advanced Placement […]
Phillips Academy receives 3,000 applications each year but only accepts about 13%. The admissions committee looks for characteristics of optimism, social agility, perseverance, and resilience in applicants. The school calls an applicant with top scores from the admissions team an “admit six.” It’s not easy to gain acceptance to Phillips Academy, the Andover, Massachusetts boarding […]
A library can be a second home for a bibliophile. They come in all shapes, sizes, and levels of embellishment. The nearly 300-year-old State Hall in Vienna, Austria, boasts carved wooden galleries, baroque-style statues, and frescos, while Taipei’s Beitou Branch resembles a treehouse more than a shelter for books. We scoured the internet and found […]
The New Hampshire attorney general is investigating allegations of sexual misconduct by three tenured Dartmouth professors. The professors conducted a 2012 study about sex and the brain with 58 female freshmen. Details of the alleged misconduct have not been released. Three tenured Dartmouth College professors, whose research included studies about sex and attractiveness, have been […]
The New Hampshire attorney general has launched a criminal investigation into alleged sexual misconduct by three Dartmouth professors. The professors are Todd Heatherton, Bill Kelley, and Paul Whalen. All three work in the department of psychological and brain sciences. Three Dartmouth College professors have been placed on leave as a criminal investigation into alleged sexual […]
Phillips Academy, a prestigious boarding school located in Andover, Massachusetts, is the best high school in America. It’s founding dates back to the American Revolution — where its roster of early supporters reads like a “who’s who” of American exceptionalism. George Washington, Paul Revere, and John Hancock all have ties to Andover, which the school […]
We visited Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts to see what makes it the best high school in America. The school is often confused with Phillips Exeter. There are 1,154 students on Andover’s campus. Tuition for students living on campus is $53,900. Tuition for day students is $41,900. Andover has a “need-blind” admissions policy which means […]
College of the Ozarks, a Christian liberal-arts college located in Missouri, has a $416 million endowment. But unlike other private liberal arts colleges with large endowments, C of O, as it’s often called, has accumulated its endowment all while offering four-year degrees to students tuition free. The roughly 1,500 person school made news recently for […]
College of the Ozarks is a private college that requires students to take a class on respect for the American flag. The school’s “no pledge, no play” policy states its sports teams won’t compete against schools whose athletes kneel during the anthem. The school is tuition-free for all four years. College of the Ozarks, a […]
Job hiring will increase 19% in 2018, helping recent college grads find employment. The information services industry will see the biggest increase in hiring. The results come from the largest annual survey of employers in the US. College seniors looking ahead to their job prospects after graduation should rejoice hiring figures coming out of a […]
Control a robot with your mind. Bring unresponsive limbs to life. Engineer tasty, nutrient-rich food tailored to an individual’s biometrics. These are just a few of the robotics projects that Columbia University PhD students are working on in their cramped, underground labs. Business Insider got inside for a rare tour of the spaces, and saw […]
Cornell University freshman Emery Bergmann made a video about the loneliness she’s experienced since she got to school. The video had nearly 90,000 views as of Tuesday morning. She says that making friends is harder than she accepted. Freshmen at colleges across America have settled into their first few months of classes, and the expectation […]
Interviews with Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and other tech elites consistently reveal that Silicon Valley parents are strict about technology use. A new book suggests the signs may have been clear years ago that smartphone use should be regulated. There may be a way to integrate tech into the classroom, however, that avoids its harmful […]
White middle school students on a Virginia football team took a video simulating sex acts on black team members. The video was captioned, “What really goes on in the football locker room.” Some experts see this type of behavior online becoming more prevalent. A Snapchat video of middle school students simulating the rape of black […]
Higher education doesn’t come cheap in the United States — citizens collectively hold about $1.31 trillion in college loan debt. Things are hardly this dire in certain other countries, where everything from preschool to university is paid for — at least in part — by the government. Some governments even cover the entire cost of […]
Bill Gates announced that he would invest more than $1.7 billion in public education. Mark Zuckerberg invested $100 million into Newark Public Schools in 2010 and it was largely seen as a failure. Gates wants schools and educators to drive the process. Bill Gates will fund a massive investment in education, pledging more than $1.7 […]
In September, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. DACA provides temporary protection from deportation to individuals brought to the US as children. Hundreds of colleges and universities — including Harvard, Yale, and Stanford — wrote a letter to the US Senate and House of Representatives to […]