The College Board’s Advanced Placement (AP) program has become more and more popular over the recent years. Students take the classes both to improve their competitiveness on college applications, and to save money on college costs (passing AP tests with a good score can often mean skipping an introductory college course).
For months now the College [...]

Good grades in high school are one of the biggest tools to getting into college—that can mean long hours of homework and studying.
If your student needs a little extra help with a topic after school hours, he or she can hop on to TeacherTube.com (http://www.teachertube.com). TeacherTube is a lot like the popular YouTube, but [...]

A while ago I posted some information on three common scholarship scams—ways that parents and students are victimized by fraudulent scholarship offers. Today I want to offer you six tips about how to catch scholarship scams before you waste your time and money. The following is a list of phrases and terms that the both [...]

If presidential candidate Bill Richardson gets his way, students will be rewarded for service to their country in a way that counts financially.
While in New Hampshire on Labor Day weekend, Richardson stated that he thought that the United States should offer incentives to students who give back to their country. In his mind, a [...]

Not close enough to help your kids with homework? New free online software could make it easier—whether you’re in the next town or six states away.
Companies like Google now offer online word-processing and spreadsheet programs, that allow you to save documents online instead of on your hard drive—so you can access them from any computer. [...]

Before you or your student start applying for scholarships and financial aid, you absolutely need to know how to spot a scam.  As parents have become more and more concerned about finding additional funding to help cover college costs, scam artists have begun to take advantage of this justifiable worry.
Recent reports on websites like CNN [...]

Big companies are not above handing out cash for referrals of talented students, according to a recent BusinessWeek article, and professors, it seems, are not above taking it.
Companies approach certain business schools, searching for talented business school grads to recruit. To augment the process, they offer financial compensation to professors who assist them in the [...]