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Better students create healthy habits
- Posted by Lori McCormick on August 21st, 2008 in Academics
Whether you are in high school, going off to college this fall, or already in college, creating positive habits will inevitably increase your productivity in the classroom.
This article highlights nine healthy habits for becoming a better student.
Revenge of the Nerdettes
- Posted by Lori McCormick on June 24th, 2008 in Academics
When asked to describe a “geek” a certain image comes to mind: a disheveled mess wearing a mismatched outfit, decorated with a pocket-protector, and glasses held together by tape. Your favorite classes in school are in math, computers, and the sciences. You are not popular; especially if you are a girl.
That was then. Today, being a girl geek is cool. Today’s nerdettes are beauty queens, cheerleaders, and class presidents. These nerds are intelligent, tech savvy, trend setters turning heads and impressing minds wherever they go.
Ladies, it’s time to embrace your inner geek and conquer the world!
Gender and Education
- Posted by Lori McCormick on June 3rd, 2008 in Academics, Articles of Interest
A new study on gender equity in education concludes that a “boys crisis” in U.S. schools is a myth and that both sexes have stayed the same or improved on standardized tests in the past decade.
A report written by the nonprofit American Association of University Women (AAUW), which promotes education and equity for women, reviewed nearly 40 years of data on achievement from fourth grade to college and for the first time analyzed gender differences within economic and ethnic categories. The report has concluded that academic success is more closely associated with family income than with gender.
Click to view this interesting article about gender equity in education .
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