Kids can and should practice the skill of learning if they want a fighting chance at fulfilling all those lofty goals their parents set for them. But some people keep studying — and thinking — the same way all their lives without improving their methods. Thankfully, cognitive science has taken a look at how people […]
Business Insider’s 2016 list of the best colleges in America named Princeton University the top school in the country, followed by Harvard University. The Ivy League schools, founded in the 18th and 17th centuries, respectively, are two of the most highly regarded universities in the world, but they offer much more than just prestige. They […]
Most college professors are Democrats because Republicans don’t accept scientific reality. That’s according to William Snider, founding director and professor in the Department of Neurology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He wrote an op-ed for The News & Observer after Phil Berger, the Republican leader of the North Carolina Senate, accused UNC […]
The University of Chicago says it won’t condone trigger warnings or safe spaces on campus. Amid a nationwide debate over academic freedom and student health and safety, the university’s dean of students tells incoming freshmen not to expect opportunities to excuse themselves from intellectual challenges and uncomfortable conversations, according to the college newspaper, Chicago Maroon. […]
Drugmaker Mylan has come under fire this week for price increases upwards of 500% since 2009 to epinephrine autoinjector EpiPen. As it turns out, this isn’t CEO Heather Bresch’s first brush with controversy. In 2008, West Virginia University stripped her of an MBA she claimed she earned. The situation began when the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette made […]
This fall, college students can avoid doing laundry without making a trip home. Boston-based startup Beantown Bedding is offering a line of “laundry-free linens” that are meant to be thrown away after just a few weeks. The sheets, available in twin extra-long size for those oddly shaped dorm room beds, are biodegradable and compostable. Cofounders […]
What makes a college great? In Business Insider’s latest ranking of the best colleges in America, the top schools share a few common traits: They provide a quality education and graduate students on time, they set graduates up to earn well-paying jobs early in their career, and they provide a memorable and enjoyable campus experience […]
Business Insider recently released its annual list of the best colleges in America, emphasizing schools with high graduation rates and early-career earnings, rather than focusing solely on glamour statistics, like reputation and selectivity. But that’s not to say that the caliber of the students doesn’t play an important role in what makes a school great. […]
Stanford University updated its alcohol policy for undergraduates on Monday, prohibiting hard alcohol from on-campus parties and placing a blanket ban on any liquor bottles 750 milliliters or more. The school noted the change intended to confront the culture on campus surrounding alcohol and noted its contribution to sexual assaults. Experts, however, have not given […]
Although corporal punishment is on the decline throughout the country, more than 109,000 students across 21 states were physically disciplined in the 2013–2014 school year, a new Education Week report has found. Hitting, spanking, paddling, or other forms of corporal punishment also disproportionately affected African-American students, who comprise 38% of those who were physically disciplined, […]
Students at the University of Texas (UT) launched a massive sex-toy protest Wednesday against state campus carry laws, Dallas News reported. Dubbed #CocksNotGlocks, the anti-gun demonstration could be the biggest in Texas history and aims to criticize the perceived irony that sex-toys are prohibited on campus while guns are allowed. “We are strapping gigantic swinging […]
A waiver form allowing students at schools in Leon County, Florida to opt out of the Pledge of Allegiance was withdrawn on Monday after it sparked public backlash. The form was widely criticized on social media after Facebook user Micah Brienen posted a photo of the waiver online with “This is the dumbest thing I […]
Every semester, college students pack their bags and jet off to foreign countries to study abroad. The experience allows them to learn things they wouldn’t be able to learn in their college classrooms. The Institute of International Education, a not-for-profit organization that researches the movement of international students, found that 304,467 American students studied abroad […]
At Oracle HQ, class will soon be in session. In the fall of 2018, teens will invade Silicon Valley tech giant Oracle when a public charter high school opens its doors on campus. Design Tech High School, or D.tech for short, combines personalized education and workshops taught by Oracle employee-volunteers to foster problem-solving skills in […]
Stanford University updated its alcohol policy for undergraduates before the 2016 fall term, prohibiting hard alcohol from on-campus parties, according to a press release. The ban, which exempts parties hosted by student organizations as well as residences with 100% graduate students, means students cannot consume mixed drinks at on-campus parties, while shots are prohibited campuswide, […]
Expensive public policies could help raise achievement in schools, but so might calmer teachers. A forthcoming study has found that giving teachers simple breathing techniques to calm themselves down and regain focus led to improvements in student behavior and academic performance. And one of the biggest takeaways: Just three deep breaths might do the trick. […]
Despite the dire state of the world today — and the stereotype that millennials’ are selfish and apathetic — the generation aged 18 to 35 cares deeply about global issues, and they’re determined to tackle them. In fact, 70% of millennials see plentiful opportunities for themselves and their peers, and 50% believe they can significantly […]
When choosing a college major, students take several elements into account, including what they’re most interested in and which fields complement their natural skills. But it’s important not to overlook an important factor: future job opportunities. With classes resuming for the fall, job-posting site Indeed compiled a list of majors that lead to “jobs of […]
(Reuters) – Board elections for the Ferguson, Missouri, school district are unfair to African-American voters, a judge ruled Monday, citing a reluctance by white voters to support black candidates in a city that has become the face of a fierce U.S. debate on race. The mostly black suburb of St. Louis became the focus of […]
Brandy Young just became the coolest teacher at Godley Elementary. Young, who teaches second grade at the Godley, Texas school, sent home a letter on Tuesday, August 16 notifying parents that she would not be assigning any homework for the entire school year. Samantha Gallagher, whose daughter Brooke is in Young’s class, posted the letter […]
Conversations about SAT and ACT scores are ubiquitous for high-school students applying to colleges. Increasingly, however, many colleges and universities have begun to eschew mandatory standardized-test scores as requirements for their application process. Amherst College, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Duke University, Vassar College, and Williams College have all dropped requirements that students take SAT subject-matter […]
So many ambitious high schoolers dream of attending an Ivy League college. In fact, nearly 250,000 students in total applied to the eight Ivy schools last year, according to IvyCoach.com. In the early 1980s, Bracken Darrell found himself at a crossroads. He “really wanted to go to an Ivy League school,” he told Adam Bryant […]
Alyson Shontell, Business Insider’s US editor-in-chief, recently sat down with LeBron James. The LeBron James Family Foundation has pledged to provide 1,100 students with full scholarships to the University of Akron. Follow BI Video: On Twitter Join the conversation about this story » read more >>> Source:: BusinessInsider.Com
It’s that time of year again — the start of the school year, when wide-eyed college freshman in the United States are decking out their dorm rooms and marking their small bit of new territory. Some are even going viral for their over-the-top interior design choices. While dorms in the US can cost up to […]
Alison Davis doesn’t see homeschooling as some strange alternative to traditional school. If anything, says the mom from Williamstown, New Jersey, when it comes to raising her two children, she’s doing the sensible thing. “You’re not going to be put in a work environment where everybody came from the same school and everybody is the […]
A group of six refugees and their parents have filed a class-action lawsuit claiming that they were denied the right to equal educational opportunities in the US after fleeing violence and persecution in their home countries. The students, aged 17 to 21, are refugees from Somalia, Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Burma “who have […]
Sal Khan began tutoring his family members over the web. This small act of kindness turned into Khan Academy, a company that offers educational videos for people all over the world. Khan is one of Silicon Valley’s biggest stars and Bill Gates who was one of the first people to take interest. Follow BI Video: […]
Wall Street professionals have a variety of college degrees and majors, but some are more lucrative than others. Emolument, a salary-benchmarking website, gathered data on 2,800 finance professionals at the analyst, associate, vice president, director, and managing director levels and looked at which degrees earned them the most money. At the more senior levels, one […]
Great public schools abound in the US, but for some students the less traditional and often-times smaller educational experience offered by charter schools is a better fit. Charter schools still operate within public school districts, but typically they don’t have to follow all of the regulations other schools do, leaving them open to alternative teaching […]
When Dan Geiter was 15 years old, he stole a few checks from the handbag of a faculty member at his high school. He forged them and cashed them, easily making a few bucks. That landed him in jail for the first time. Throughout his teenage years, Geiter continued to commit similar crimes of fraud […]
A new study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research discovered an established link between the number of universities in a country and its gross domestic product (GDP). The comprehensive study, titled “The Economic Impact of Universities: Evidence from Across the Globe,” evaluated universities in 1,500 regions across 78 countries since 1950 and is […]
Chicago Public Schools (CPS), the third largest school district in the country, laid off more than 1000 employees in August. The downsizing exacerbated an already tenuous relationship between teachers and CPS administrators and drew swift rebuke from students. The firings over budgetary concerns impacted 508 teachers and 521 support staff. Officials within CPS described them […]
Architects who design kindergartens are powerful people — it’s up to them to decide what kind of first impression a child has about school. The best designs use wide-open spaces and bright colors that naturally compel kids to explore. From Thailand’s elegant Kensington International School to Germany’s cat-shaped Kindergarten Wolfartsweier, here are some of the […]
Donating money to a university sounds like an inherently positive action, or at least a benign one — but that’s certainly not always the case, argues Malcolm Gladwell. The bestselling author and host of the hit podcast “Revisionist History” made what he perceives to be the moral injustice of gifts to wealthy universities one of […]
Academia has long-perceived summer school as a dreaded purgatory where failing students toil away their precious summertime months. So the fact that any student would choose to spend his or her summer vacation in the classroom may come as a surprise. But that’s exactly what many high-achieving students have started to do as high schoolers, […]
Stanford is one of the top academic institutions in America, but if the Summer Olympics are any indication, it’s also an international athletic powerhouse. At least one Stanford athlete has walked away a medalist from every Olympics since 1912. Prior to the Rio Games, Stanford athletes won a total of 243 Olympic medals (125 gold, […]
Computers may be getting a better education than students, according to one expert at Google. Jonathan Rochelle, head of the product management team for Google’s education outreach arm, called Google for Education, says the techniques we use to teach our machines are far more effective at making them smarter than the methods we use to […]
Vanderbilt University announced on Monday that it will change the name of Confederate Memorial Hall, a dormitory whose name invoked racial segregation, The Tennessean reported. The removal, which the school had tried to complete for more than a decade, came with a hefty $1.2 million price tag. Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos wrote a note to […]
As the summer winds down and students prepare for the fall semester, the issue of college admissions will undoubtedly begin to weigh heavily on the minds of high-school seniors. One of the biggest questions surrounding this topic is whether an applicant will do better on the SAT or ACT. Business Insider talked to Dr. Gary […]
You might think that holding a Masters of Business Administration, or MBA, is essential to building a career on Wall Street. You would be wrong. It turns out that MBA degrees are very common at the upper levels within investment banks — but they don’t dominate. In fact, the most common degree for the most […]
Student-loan debt in the US has grown to a staggering $1.3 trillion, and many policymakers refer to the seemingly inexorable levels of mounting debt as a crisis. Some, like Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, have suggested plans to provide college for free or at least, minimal cost. The below chart […]
One of the oldest law schools in the country, Columbia Law School prepares its students to perform at the highest levels in the legal world. The institution holds an impressive share of Supreme Court justices, federal judges, attorneys general, renowned civil rights activists, and even brilliant minds that moved beyond the field of law. Business […]
It’s less than two months to go until the round-one deadline at the country’s top MBA program. Harvard Business School (HBS) has the earliest application deadline with round-one applications for Fall 2017 entry due on September 7. Business Insider caught up with Stacy Blackman, the CEO of a leading MBA-admissions advisory firm, to get some […]
LGBT high schoolers are three times more likely to have been raped than their straight classmates, according to the first nationwide study on the health risks faced by queer youth. The new Centers for Disease Control study, which asked high school students about their sexuality, found that gay, lesbian and bisexual teens are at far […]
A judge spared 22-year-old Austin Wilkerson a prison sentence on Wednesday after he was convicted of sexually assaulting an intoxicated woman prosecutors described as “helpless.” Although the conviction typically carries a sentence of four to 12 years in prison, with the option of more time, District Judge Patrick Butler instead sentenced Wilkerson to two years […]