Empowerment, Enhancing Daily Achievement for Viable Future

Empowerment, Enhancing Daily Achievement for Viable Future

Setting and achieving goals is about something deeper than creating change. It’s about managing the changes made, and putting your future fully in your control. Remember you are in control of your life now. You are responsible for your happiness, sadness, wealth, debt. If you want to debate this with us, it doesn’t matter, but you only hurt yourself.

Where you are today in your life, your finances, your relationships; each domain of life, is directly related to what you have done in the past. If you have never saved money for rainy day and now you are broke, it’s because you chose not to save money. If you really save money and now have nice little nest egg, it’s because you chose to do it. If you want to save money for your future you can choose to. If where you are is not where you want to be …

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The Convenience of a School Desk

The Convenience of a School Desk

School is necessary. It’s what helps the creative geniuses explore their imaginations, or at least get to live out their dreams as doctors and lawyers. No one ever said that school had to be unpleasant. Sure there will always be the people that make it uncomfortable for others, but as far as the classroom is concerned, it does not have to be uncomfortable. Schools are going the extra mile of providing usable school desks to the students in a bid of making the learning process a bit better. The square designs that were common in the past are now gone, and replaced with rectangular ones which offer more usable space.

School desks may or may not have storage space. Those with storage may have a top opening design. Because of accessing complexities, most school desks come with a fixed top but an opened end to grant easier access …

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How To Get Them Writing By Using Personalized Pencils

How To Get Them Writing By Using Personalized Pencils

With all of the technology available from computers with word processors, text messaging, email and tweeting, kids don’t write things down nearly as much as they used to because the need to write things down just isn’t there. But having good penmanship is still important, not only because there are times things do have to be written down such as filling out forms, taking notes in class or even making out a grocery list. One way to get kids interested in improving their penmanship, using personalized pencils is a great way to do it.

Since there are still a lot of situations in school that require handwritten work, having good penmanship is still very important. Not only will teachers appreciate being able to read the answers on tests and on homework, later in life, the kids will appreciate being able to read their own handwriting as well. In …

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Non-Profit Administrators Are Heading to the For-Profit Sector

Non-Profit Administrators Are Heading to the For-Profit Sector

Amidst recent controversy over recruiting practices and poor job placement, for-profit education institutions have begun to recruit non-profit administrators in an effort to influence what can be a predatory, misleading admissions culture. The intent is to demonstrate to Washington and critics in general that there are many positive similarities between for- and non-profit schools, and that for-profits offer accessibility and opportunity to students who may be unable to enter a traditional non-profit.

Diane Auer Jones, an assistant secretary for postsecondary education during the George W. Bush presidency and a lobbyist and Congressional staffer, is one of the first to make the move. Jones recently accepted a position as Career Education Corp.’s vice president of external and regulatory affairs.

Long before her career began in education, Jones was a massage therapist student at a for-profit college in Baltimore. Her son, similarly, attended a for-profit college. Jones has remarked that …

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Recent Polls Show Four Year Colleges Are Not for Everyone

Recent Polls Show Four Year Colleges Are Not for Everyone

A college degree is central to most people’s conception of the “American Dream,” but the dearth of good jobs resulting from the economic downturn has people re-evaluating exactly what a college degree looks like.

The Associated Press and Stanford University teamed up to poll over 1,000 adults nationwide; the poll measured their opinions of educational quality in four-year colleges and universities versus community colleges and technical schools.

The vast majority of those polled, nearly 70%, said that many community colleges offer an education as good as one from a four-year school. The majority of respondents also noted that it’s “sometimes better for students to pursue a diploma or certificate from a two-year school than aim to enter a four-year college.”

Larry Wyse, one of the adults interviewed for the survey, said that the traditional mindset that “every student should attend a four-year college,” is frustrating. Wyse, who holds …

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