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The Top 50 Educators on Twitter to Follow in 2010
January 21, 2010
With the tough economic times of today and unemployment rates spiking across the world, there are scores of people making education their number one resolution for the New Year. With this in mind, we wanted to create a list of educators who are utilizing Twitter to help others reach their educational goals. Read More
Recent Articles
Tax Deductions and Credits for Students
March 10, 2010
Tax season is upon us—and it’s crucial to get the most in your deductions possible. As a student, you’re eligible not just for deductions, but for certain tax credits that can lower your tax bill dollar for dollar—not just by a percentage.
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Is Student Loan Reform Dead?
March 08, 2010
The Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act, introduced by Representative George Miller of California in 2009, promises to cut banks and financial institutions out of the student loan game. Currently, the federal government allows private financial institutions to give out federal private student loans—and guarantees up to 97% of those loans—meaning that if the student defaults, the government will pay about 97 cents to the dollar for all lost funds.
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Schools That Won't Let You Take Out a Loan
March 05, 2010
The average college student can expect to graduate with over $20,000 in student loans as of 2009 studies. There’s no question that colleges are getting more expensive, and students often graduate with crippling debt.
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How Other Countries Manage Paying for College
March 03, 2010
America has the most expensive college education in the world—and the system doesn’t bat an eye at letting new graduates into the world with an average of $20,000—often more—in student debt.
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How to Take an Online Course for Free
March 01, 2010
There are plenty of ways to get money for college. But what if you don’t want to go to college and get a degree—you just want to take one course? Maybe you need a specific course to advance your skills at work, or a certification to improve your resume.
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Using Social Networking to Stay in Touch With Online Classmates
February 26, 2010
One of the drawbacks people often list with online education is that it doesn’t get you the networking benefits that you get with a traditional college. You don’t meet classmates face to face, get to know them in person, or develop relationships that could lead to job opportunities down the road.
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Should You Blog Your Online College Experience?
February 24, 2010
A well-known blog can be both a blessing and a curse for a college student. Writing your own blog chronicling your educational experience could help you make new connections that could lead to a job down the line—or it could get you in trouble with your school, professors and parents.
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Online Education Goes Ivy League
February 22, 2010
Online education has come a long way. Although some more traditional fields and industries still prefer to see a traditional school on employer resumes, students are flocking to the flexibility and affordability offered by online degree programs—and traditional higher education has had to adapt.
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Should You Apply Early Decision?
February 19, 2010
You can apply to a college under its normal admissions schedule…or you can apply early decision.Under an early decision plan, you send in your application much earlier than the rest of the pack—usually in November—and hear back within a month or two.
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What to Do If You're Enrolled in a Diploma Mill
February 17, 2010
You’ve probably seen ads for schools that offer a full Bachelor’s, Master’s or Ph.D with no studying required—or credit for “life experience.” You know these degrees are a sham.
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Why Lenders Won't Approve You for Private Student Loans
February 15, 2010
It used to be easy to get a student loan. Before around 2008, banks would practically throw money at students—with serious strings attached, of course. But pretty much any student could get a private loan from a bank to further their education, which made college more accessible to all—despite putting graduates under heavy debt burdens after graduation.
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How to Earn Credits for College - While You're Still in High School
February 12, 2010
There are some major benefits to earning some of your college credits while you’re still in high school. College tuition costs are ballooning—much faster than the rise of parents’ and students’ average pay—and earning credits in high school can give you a way to save money on college classes later.
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How to Work Your Alumni Network to Get A Job
February 10, 2010
Your alumni network is a valuable place to develop relationships that may lead to future jobs. After all, other people who graduated from your college know you have a good education, and they have a shared experience with you that will set you apart in their minds from other job candidates who didn’t go to your college.
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Getting the Most From Your Career Center
February 08, 2010
To most college students, the career center is there to help them write a resume, maybe check some preliminary job listings, and run a career fair once a year or so. But you could be getting a lot more help from your career center—especially if you start using it before the end of your senior year.
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In College, With Kids: How to Deal
February 05, 2010
Going to college is never easy—but parents of young children, particularly those too young to go to school themselves, have it particularly hard. You need time to study without distractions, your child needs round-the-clock care—and childcare is not cheap.
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Are You Ready to Go Back to College?
February 03, 2010
If you believe the hype, you’d think all your employment problems would be solved if you could just go back to school. But not everybody is ready to go back—and if you drop out, you could waste a lot of tuition money.
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When Your School Loses Its Accreditation
January 29, 2010
Accreditation provides a basic standard by which schools are judged. If your school is unaccredited, your degree is not considered valid by employers, other schools, or financial aid organizations.
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When You're Fired: Your Lawful and Contractual Rights
January 27, 2010
If you’ve been fired, you might feel at a complete loss. However, depending on the way you were let go, you may be entitled to unemployment benefits and other help, such as severance benefits and health insurance, for a certain amount of time.
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Can Your Credit Score Cost You a Job?
January 25, 2010
It’s a cruel Catch-22 situation that’s becoming more common in today’s difficult economy. You lose your job. Your bills pile up. Your credit record goes south. And then you have trouble getting a new job—because of your credit.
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Should You Take a Semester Off?
January 22, 2010
Taking a semester off sounds like bad news—but is it really? For some, it’s the best way to deal with tuition hikes, personal problems that are affecting grades, or indecision regarding a major.
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Gates Grants: Do You Qualify?
January 18, 2010
Founded by Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is the largest private charitable foundation in the world. It splits most of its charitable focus between global health and development, library development, and educational scholarships.
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Seven Networking Tips For Those Who Hate to Network
January 15, 2010
Networking has a bad reputation. For many people, it brings up connotations of wheeling, dealing, and trying to manipulate people into helping them get something. But that’s not what networking is about—unless you’re really, really bad at it.
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Attacked By Facebook! Social Media Malware - How to Spot and Avoid It.
January 13, 2010
You know not to download suspicious email attachments or click on suspicious links. But what happens when those emails come from a site you use every day—and that link was sent by a friend? Cyber-crime trends show that people are much more vulnerable to Malware and other scams when they come over social networking sites—sites where they can connect with people they know and trust.
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Private vs. Federal Loans: Defining The Difference
January 11, 2010
There are two general types of student loans: federal and private. Federal loans include Plus, Stafford, and Perkins loans. These loans all have different terms—and some are subsidized by the federal government, making their interest much lower and guaranteeing it doesn’t accumulate while you’re in college.
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Would Forgiving Student Loan Debt Stimulate the Economy?
January 06, 2010
In early 2009, two Facebook groups were formed to generate support and petition signatures urging President Obama to cancel all student loan debt to stimulate the economy.
Both groups have grown exponentially in popularity since their establishment.
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Is Your College Experience Preparing You For the Work World?
January 04, 2010
Not every college graduate is prepared for their first job. It’s easy to blame the college, but often your preparation for the work world in college depends on the effort you put into it. If you’ve developed a habit of handing in papers late, avoiding leadership positions, and waking up late, work is going to be a tougher transition for you than it would be if you’ve made a conscious effort to develop habits that will serve you well in the work world.
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Six Myths About Well-Written Resumes
January 01, 2010
In today’s job market, your search is competitive. There are likely to be hundreds—maybe even thousands—of resumes sent to some of the job openings you apply for, and hiring managers are looking for any excuse to narrow down the field.
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Top 50 Education Tweets of 2009
December 23, 2009
As 2009 comes to an end, we here at Distance-Education.org would like to take a moment to share with you some of our favorite tweets that we have collected over the past 12 months. We have chosen these 50 tweets because of their ability to make us laugh, think, wonder, and most importantly, keep us entertained.
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SafeStart: What Is It, and Is It Right for You?
December 23, 2009
Student debt is no easy thing to deal with. For many students, the prospect of a mountain of debt when they graduate can affect which college they choose to go to—or whether they go to college at all.
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