It seems everyone wants to give students discounts. Well, everyone except their schools—unless you learn how to improve your chances of getting a tuition discount! It is amazing how many discounts students can get—you just have to know where to look.
Today’s tip is about using discount cards to reduce your student’s cost of [...]

Kaplan Offers SAT Quiz Downloads on iTunes
Do you remember what life was like before the iPod? Your child would come home from school, drop his backpack on the ground, and answer your query of how school went with a simple, “Fine.” With the advent of the iPod, that simple question and answer [...]

A quote from the recent action movie, Transformers, has kids a little confused.  In a quick interchange between two characters, a tech-savvy teenage girl informs a government higher-up that Nokia, a popular cell phone manufacturer, is Finnish, not Japanese.
As it turns out, a significant percentage of U.S. college students are misinformed consumers—they have no idea [...]

Today I have some new ideas on how to save money on all those little doodads and add-ons you need to customize your student’s computer. Keep these in mind for later; college classes like graphic or web design can mean your student will need to buy new programs. There are all kinds of software [...]

In the wake of the student loan scandal, Congress has begun to reconsider how it awards subsidies to lenders that offer loans to college students.  They have begun to discuss a change that would reduce money used for subsidies, and instead spend those funds on student aid.
Federal government subsidies of student loans began in the [...]

Kids born between the late 1970’s and the mid-1990’s have many titles: “Generation Y,” “Echo Boomers,” “The Internet Generation,” and, at times, “The Boomerang Generation.”  The earlier half of Generation Y—those who have gone to college and moved out—earned the latter title because of their increasing tendency to “boomerang” back home after graduation.  Moms and [...]

This is the first in a series about saving money on things your student will use on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. My opening tips discuss how to save money on one of the ultimate big ticket item purchased for college: a computer.
Don’t you love it when I tell you that you don’t [...]

Earning a degree takes work. College students struggle under the yoke of the most intensive, demanding educational structure they have yet faced at the same time they are beginning to come to grips with their growing adult responsibilities. For both parents and students alike, a diploma becomes a cherished reminder and trophy for [...]

In a recent report, the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) and Phi Delta Kappa International stated that over 90 percent of students in middle school plan to pursue a college education. Unfortunately, only around 66 percent of students start college after graduating high school.
What could cause such a significant gap? According [...]