November 2, 2009 – Do you know what’s inside your hamburger? If you’re eating one of the 546,000 pounds of fresh ground beef, you could also be consuming E. coli.
Two deaths and 26 other people have become ill after eating ground beef that had become tainted by the potentially deadly bacteria. Pass this article along [...]

Penn Foster College has officially been bought by Princeton Review. What does this mean for online students?
For the second time in the past for years, Penn Foster College has been sold. A few years ago, the college was known as Education Direct, but changed its name when it was purchased by The Wicks Group of [...]

Back on September 9th, President Obama gave an important speech to Americans asking for their support in improving the country’s health care system. No matter what your politics are, you know that our country’s approach to health care is in need of reform.
But will the President’s plans to create a universal health care system actually [...]

The end of October is quickly approaching, meaning that the only thing left to talk about is…Halloween.
However, All Hallow’s Eve isn’t just about the candy, costumes, and parties—there has been some legitimately scary stuff that’s been going on around college campuses these past few weeks. Check out these seriously scary stories that might impact your [...]

As this decade comes to a close, violence is monopolizing our schools and blanketing our streets. More and more school districts across America are dealing with issues of fighting and harassment between students which makes children feel intimidated and fearful to come to school. As the recent killing of a honor roll [...]

At the rate technology is growing these days, professors are taking advantage of newly-marketed pieces to make learning more interesting and more convenient. The appearance of Kindles to replace eight-pound textbooks is slowly catching on, and iClickers are used to take attendance instead of the regular pen-and-paper roll-call. The other craze, it seems, is professors [...]

The Federal Department of Education recently launched a nationwide competition in which 2700 school districts and nonprofit organizations will compete for a $650 million innovation fund.  The program entitled, Investing in Innovation Fund, is broken down into three categories.  The first category consists of $5

million small development grants to support new, unproven ideas that seem [...]

With the recession in the past years, there is always the question of whether or not an investment in college education would be worth facing mounting debt later on. What with the increasing costs of tuition, room, and board, the price for a college education is almost like paying for someone’s full-time job.
There have been [...]