Education / Careers

Education / Careers

Going Back to School After Military Service

When returning from the service, the decision to go back to school can become a difficult choice for many servicemen and women. Here is some advice for taking the first steps.

Distance Learning Options Changing the Face of Home Schooling

Parents who are concerned that budget constraints may be costing their kids a quality education are turning to home schooling. As in a traditional classroom, students ask and answer questions, participate in discussions, and take tests. But unlike a public or private school, virtual students have the advantage of completing their courses from home, allowing them the flexibility to work at their own pace.

Long-Lost Friends Can Reconnect At High School Reunions, Even When The School Is

Ever wonder what happened to the girl you took to the sweetheart dance, the guy you always wished had asked you out or your childhood best friend? How about your high school's senior class president or the class clown? Whether it has been five years, fifty years or somewhere in between since you graduated, you can soon find out by attending a class reunion. But how are you going to find where all your former classmates are?

Do a Great Thing for Your Community - Host a Foreign Exchange Student

The best way to experience another culture is by opening your heart and home to a young person from another country, and right now there is a huge need for host families.

Looking for Career Options? Four Myths About Working in Insurance

When you were a kid, you probably imagined doing something exciting with your life, like becoming a fighter pilot. Or thought about helping people by becoming a doctor. But you almost never hear children say they want to work in insurance, even though a lot of them will end up in this trillion-dollar industry.

Help Your Middle Schooler Get Up To Speed

Is your daughter ready for the social aspects of middle school? Why not help prepare her -- and yourself -- for what's ahead?

Taking the Anxiety out of Dental Visits

If you are one of the millions of Americans who avoid the dentist, take comfort. Advances in dental care are helping minimize patient discomfort and dental assistants are working hard to ensure that your experience will be a positive one.

What's In the Bottle? A Smart Shopper's Guide to Understanding Dietary Supplemen

With so much information listed, a dietary supplement label can be difficult to decipher. Here are five important parts of the label the smart shopper should understand.

What Role Should Local Grocery Stores Play in the Battle Against Childhood Obesi

These days, too many children are growing up snacking on candy and cookies rather than foods that are good for them like fruits, vegetables and grains. But if America's grocery stores have anything to do with it, that's about to change!

Business Etiquette for the New Graduate

After years of studying, new graduates must find something else to do. And while most grads know how to dress appropriately, have their resume in order, and have solid experience, most are nervous about the initial steps when meeting interviewers.

Simple Tips for Funding Your College Education

The cost of tuition continues to skyrocket. In fact, on average, the cost of college tuition at both public and private universities has doubled over the last 20 years. The news is not all bad though, as the selection of financing options and financial aid packages available to students continues to grow.

Five Ways to Maximize Your Back to School Budget

Back-to-school spending is expected to jump 6.9 percent this year to an average of $563.49 per child. To reduce the financial strain of back-to-school expenses, use these five tips to develop a strategy before you venture to the malls.

Back-to-school Survival Guide for Teens and Parents

According to a survey by kidshealth.org of over 600 teens ages 14 to 17, schoolwork (32 percent), social issues (30 percent) and appearance (25 percent) topped the list of back-to-school worries most cited by teens. Though these issues are complex, there are steps you can take to reduce your child's (and your own) stress level and enjoy a new start.

More Demand, Fewer Grads Mean Tech Careers Continue to Boom

The era of the Internet start-up boom may be over, but demand for technology professionals continues to rise. Broader use of cheaper, more easily available technology by a variety of industries, and a dearth of technology professionals mean technology will continue to be a hot career choice.

Career Advancement without the Commute

When it comes to furthering your personal and professional goals by finishing that degree you once started or beginning a new course of study, wouldn't it be nice to just log onto your home computer and learn?

Veterinarians: Taking Science to the Next Level

So you think veterinarians are just those friendly folks who treat pets? Welcome to the 21st century and an amazing world of veterinarians who may specialize in animal health but are equally concerned about the health of the human race.

New School Year Equals New Challenges

At the start of a new school year, students fret about things like who their lab partner will be, will they make honor roll and if they will have a date for the homecoming dance. While parents can't control every variable of their child's life, they can help them excel at responsible decision-making and dealing with peer pressure.

Back to College Moving Tips

According to the National Center for Educational Statistics, college enrollments continue to climb, meaning more students will be heading to college this fall. With over 30 years in the business, Penske Truck Rental offers these helpful tips to make your move go as smoothly and easily as possible.

Help Your Child Achieve School-Life Balance

Childhood today is more demanding than ever and parents are paying increased attention to how they can help balance their children's lives. With the start of a new school year approaching, Office Depot is offering parents a variety of tips and advice featuring organizational and time management solutions to help kids succeed in today's busy classroom and after-school environments.

Boomer Empty Nesters Adding Online Social Networking to Recovery Options

Your last child is off to their first year in college, and their old car is packed full of clothes, sports gear, pictures and enough books to make their dorm room livable. You and your spouse keep waving until the car turns the corner out of sight, and then look at each other as a child-free couple for the first time in perhaps 20 years or more. Here are some helpful trips for a smooth transition.

Are You Ready to Change Your Life?

Feel like there is something missing from your life? Do you ever hear yourself saying, "If only I could 'blank' or my spouse or child would 'blank?'" then you may benefit from The Mountain Experience, a unique personal growth program that, over the course of five days, teaches people how to overcome the obstacles that are holding them back.

Is Your Child's School District Attracting the Top Substitute Teachers?

Another school year is about to get underway, and a lot of work is going on behind the scenes. One of the most important details administrators are dealing with is making sure they have an appropriate sized pool of qualified and prepared substitute teachers in place once classes get underway.

Proactive Steps Prepare Parents and Students for Back to School

Going back to school can cause many emotions including anticipation, happiness, apprehension and exhaustion. But it's not just children who feel the stress and excitement of a new school year, parents do as well. With a little planning, the transition can go smoothly for the entire family. Here's some tips.

High Tech Checklist for A-plus Students

Here's a back-to-school technology checklist for high-school and college-bound students to help make their school year more productive. From "must-have" staples to "nice-to-have" gadgets, students are taking some pretty pricey gear with them to school and they need to know how to use it as well as how to protect it.

Ten-Year-Old Girl Running for President

If someone were to ask you who is running for President in 2008, lots of names would pop into your head, but have you heard of Susie Flynn? She has a single issue platform: America needs to offer health insurance to the 9 million children in this country who don't have it.

Back to School Shouldn't Mean Back Indoors

Now that kids are going back to school, that doesn't mean they should trade in all their time outdoors for hours in front of the computer, TV or video games. The National Wildlife Federation (NWF) has launched a new program as an antidote for kids too wired to technology.

Watch Movies, Videos and More on Summer Trips

So you've bought one of the new video iPods and you've downloaded your favorite movies and TV shows from the iTunes store. There's just one problem. Now you actually have to watch a two-hour feature film on a 2.5-inch screen that you have to hold up to your face. Not a very comfortable or practical situation - especially if you're traveling.

Worried that Your Child Won't Get into Preschool?

When it comes time for your child to start preschool, most parents can't control their enthusiasm, but what do you do if the school turns you away because your son or daughter is not potty trained?

Beat the Rush for the Top Ten School Supplies

Back-to-school season is here and whether your kids are first-timers or seasoned veterans, their school supply list is long. When shopping for school supplies, beating the crowds and finding the bargains can be a challenge. According to the National Retail Federation, last year Americans spent $17.6 billion on school supplies, with an average family spending approximately $527.

Bringing Back the Family Dinner

While the kids enjoy summer fun, parents know that back-to-school season is just around the corner. With it will come the annual rush to get tots, tweens and teenagers ready to buckle down and hit the books for another year. However, amid the madness of daily routines lies a golden opportunity to rekindle one of America's most enduring and important traditions: the family dinner.

Winning Teen Chef Shares Secrets for Snacking Healthy

Like any teenager when they get home from a long day at school, Amanda Nunez is plenty hungry, but as the winner of The Art Institutes Best Teen Chef competition, not just any average after school snack will do.

Technology Provides New Ways to Give Back

The urge to help others runs deep in America. In 2006, roughly one in four adult Americans, 61.2 million total, volunteered their time, according to a new federal report by the Corporation for National and Community Service. Now there's a new way to give back that incorporates charitable giving into our daily lives.

Innovative Ways to Stretch Educational Budgets

In all aspects of life, it takes a combination of traditional teaching and hands-on experience to learn new things. This is why field trips are so valuable for children. Problems with time and budgets can affect a group's ability to participate in field trips, but communities are stepping up to help kids continue learning.

Want to Learn How to Draw? Anyone Can Do It

They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks, but American fine artist and educator Larry Gluck has proven them wrong. Gluck has spent over quarter of a century developing a fine art teaching method called The Gluck Method that has helped those who had no art talent to draw and even paint beyond their wildest dreams.

Creative College Funding Secrets

To put into perspective the ever-rising cost of college tuition, consider this: chances are good your first car cost less than your child's first year of college. And if your child opts for private school education, the total bill for four years could come close to what you paid for your first home.

Tips for Back-to-school Technology Shopping

Remember when your biggest back-to-school shopping challenge was finding your elementary student the coolest pair of sneakers and trendy T-shirts? Today, shopping for school means making sure they have all the technology they'll need to make it through the school year.

Search Engine Alternatives Cut Out the Clutter

If you run a small business today, you know the critical need for information. Like no other time in history, accurate, timely and credible information is the key to making sound business decisions and ultimately achieving business success. Look to independent resources with proven credibility, like the non-profit James J. Hill Reference Library, a trusted source of practical business information.

As the Class of 2020 Heads to Kindergarten, Don't Forget to Start Saving for Col

While the cost of college has skyrocketed families are not saving enough. The good news though is that every little contribution helps and parents should know there are some simple steps they can take now to jumpstart their child's college savings for the future.

When Google and Yahoo Can't Help You Find What You Need

If you run a small business today, you know the critical need for information. Like no other time in history, accurate, timely and credible information is the key to making sound business decisions and ultimately achieving business success. Look to independent resources with proven credibility, like the non-profit James J. Hill Reference Library, a trusted source of practical business information.

Fast Food Business Seeks Employees Who Seek Careers, not 'McJobs'

Fast-food companies have known for decades that it isn't hard to find good workers. It's hard to keep good workers from leaving. The national employee turnover rate in the quick service restaurant industry rose to 130 percent last year, according to the National Restaurant Association's Restaurant Industry Operations Report.

Winning Teen Chef Shares Secrets for Snacking Healthy

Like any teenager when they get home from a long day at school, Amanda Nunez is plenty hungry, but as the winner of The Art Institutes Best Teen Chef competition, not just any average after school snack will do.

Do You Suffer From an Unwelcome Side Effect of Your Medications?

It's a problem no one wants to talk about, much less admit they are dealing with, but according to the American Journal of Gastroenterology, constipation is a common gastrointestinal complaint affecting more than 65 million Americans. Here's how to deal with it.