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Pope Francis Awarded This Palestinian Teacher The 2016 Global Teacher Prize
Palestinian teacher Hanan Al Hroub won the Global Teacher Prize at this year’s Global Education and Skills Forum in Dubai. The $1 million award, established by the Varkey Foundation, “is presented annually to an exceptional teacher who has made an outstanding contribution to their profession.”

8 Ways Millennial Newlyweds Dealt With Their Debt

Startup Schools: America’s Most Entrepreneurial Universities

Six Quick Legal Questions About NCAA Tournament Pools
With the NCAA men’s basketball tournament tipping off on Wednesday, a number of FORBES readers have posed questions about the legality of their NCAA Tournament pools.

Dos And Don’ts On Campus: The College Visit Circuit
Some guidelines for attending college tours and admission presentations.

The Tidal Wave Of Money Woes Drowning Millennials
The financial burdens placed on the shoulders of Millennials are overwhelming, but their not impossible to overcome. As a Baby Boomer with two Millennial children, I totally understand this generation’s plight and can only offer some sobering advice to Millennials digging themselves out of their economic hole.

What Windowsill Farms And Purple Corn Flakes Have In Common: Just Ask Startup Back To The Roots
The huge Natural Products Expo West, from March 9-13, in Anaheim, CA.,  is one of the most anticipated food industry trade shows of the year, with more than 3,000 exhibitors and 70,000 visitors from around the world.

Comparing The Free 2016 NCAA Tournament Contests: Yahoo! Offers Prize To 1st Place; ESPN & CBS Don’t
With the NCAA selection committee expected to soon announce its 2016 tournament brackets, college basketball fans have already begun to scour the web for free NCAA Tournament contests to join.  Once again this year, each of the ‘big three’ fantasy sports websites (Yahoo, ESPN and CBS) is offering a free-to-enter March Madness challenge.  However, only the Yahoo contest guarantees a prize to the contest’s first-place finisher.

Why Princeton Deserves An At-Large Bid To The 2016 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament
Tomorrow night, the NCAA selection committee will announce the 68 teams competing in this year’s men’s basketball tournament.  Among the many teams hoping for an at-large bid, one in particular deserves consideration — the Princeton Tigers.

The Best Business Schools For Career Prospects 2016

Higher Education in Review: February 8-March 11
Michael DeBow recaps recent higher education news.

Donald Trump Says Ben Carson Will Endorse Him And Lend Support On Education Issues
Republican front-runner Donald Trump says Ben Carson, the retired pediatric neurosurgeon who last week dropped out of the race for the presidential nomination, will endorse him Friday morning and play a major role in supporting Trump on education issues, such as the increasing role of charter schools in urban communities.

The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Education
Progress in artificial intelligence and machine learning has been impressive, but there is still much work to be done to advance learning science. While some progress is being made to bring artificial intelligence to the education space as described above, these efforts pale in comparison to advancements in the non-education space.

Seth Godin, High School, And Sitting Up Front
Seth Godin’s blog inspires a rant on sitting up front.

Why Your Career Path Depends On Analytics
In his recent book, “The Industries of the Future”, Alec Ross talks about data being the raw material of the information age in much the same way iron was the raw material of the industrial age. As a result, he says, those who control data access, who understand it and who can interpret it would rule the world in the near future. Think of this: robots powered by data in the cloud; made possible in part by professionals who understand how to leverage data and who know how to do analytics. With no stretch of the imagination, analytics would become a core required skill for many jobs.

What Millennials Are Doing With Millions In Government Funds To Reclaim Their Communities
Through participatory budgeting, millennials are allocating millions in government funds to better their local communities.

2016 30 Under 30: Law & Policy

7 Ways Millennials Can Deal With Grief
Dealing with grief as a young person is really hard, here are some tips for coping.

In This Harvard MBA Course, Beer Can Improve Your Grade
The Strategic Brew computer simulation puts 940 first-year MBA students in charge of their own breweries.

Is Hosting An NCAA Tournament Pool Legal?
On Sunday evening, the NCAA Selection Committee will announce the official bracket for this year’s NCAA men’s basketball tournament. Then, the Madness truly begins.

8 Awesome Anthropologists Advancing Public Outreach
This International Women’s Day, why not check out some women anthropology bloggers who cover current and past people around the world?

These Ancient Bones Helped Solve Historical Mysteries

What Running the Most Competitive Business School in the Country Taught Me About Running a Business
It may sound foreign to describe running a nonprofit grad school like running a business, but at the Acton School of Business, we live by the bootstrap principles we teach. As a graduate and now CEO of the program, I’m often asked by prospective students how I made the decision to pursue my MBA and where I see the benefits.

College Basketball Fans Should Exercise Caution When Running NCAA Tournament Pools
On Sunday evening, the NCAA Selection Committee will announce the official bracket for this year’s NCAA men’s basketball tournament. Then, the Madness truly begins.

The Best Business Schools For Career Prospects 2016

Why Older MBA Applicants Need To Be Wiser
Can you still secure a place in one of the world’s best full-time MBAs when you are over 30?

The World’s Top Universities 2015

The World Is Falling Out Of Love With American Universities
The U.S. share of the international student market has plunged – and when international students are a lucrative source of income that could have serious repercussions.

MIT, Columbia, Dartmouth Partner With Singapore Online Firm To Make Exec Education At ‘India Price’
The executive education sections of MIT Sloan, Tuck Dartmouth, and Columbia Business School have become founding academic institutions in partnership with a Singapore startup to take their branded executive short-courses online.

The Grateful Graduates Index 2015: The Top 50 ROI Colleges

Behind The Nijab: Saudi Arabian Women Educators
Unlike the U.S. where men were and still often are the teachers and leaders of women at women’s schools, in Saudi Arabia the faculty and the administration are all women.

13 Money Mistakes Retirees Should Avoid

The Grade Shaming Of Ben Simmons: Part Of The NCAA’s College Basketball Hyporcrisy
On Saturday afternoon, University of Kentucky basketball fans chanted “GPA” at Louisiana State University freshman Ben Simmons after the first-year star purportedly failed to achieve the minimum academic standards needed to win college basketball’s prestigious Wooden Award.

When to Go: The College Visit Circuit
What’s the best season for visiting college campuses? Pros and cons of spring, summer, and fall.

Happy Birthday Neale. You Qualify For Medicare. Now What?
As my 65th birthday approached, I had something on my mind. It was an eight letter word that haunted me for months. It was time for me to sign-up for Medicare. After going through the steps, I was pleasantly surprised by process; however, I caution anyone approaching that magic age to do their research.

Bisila Bokoko: An Entrepreneur’s Leadership Journey
Bisila Bokoko is a Spanish-American 40-something woman with African roots who lives in New York – a businesswoman, entrepreneur, inspirational speaker, fashionista, and philanthropist. But mostly she is a leader by example, inspiring one person at a time, from the grass roots up. And she is surprisingly successful at it.

Chris Dorsey’s ‘Call To the Wild’ Investment Results In Millions
From ink and paper to the big screen, Chris Dorsey is known for his profound ability to take big movements and growing trends and turn them into shows that we just can’t stop watching. As President and founding partner of Dorsey Pictures, formerly Orion Entertainment, he has helped create more than 40 outdoor television series—more than anyone in history—for nine different networks. He shares his insight with us.

Addressing Youth Unemployment: Creating A Pathway To Economic Success
As President of one of America’s leading educational institutions and CEO of one of the world’s largest financial firms, we see the world through two very different lenses.

Pulling An All-Nighter While Doing Some Serious Good
Students and JPMorgan Chase employees team up to develop solutions for local nonprofits at a 24 hour code challenge.

The Bonefish And Tarpon Trust Is The Little Conservation Engine That Could
“It’s hard to beat swimming with a school of 10,000 bonefish getting ready to go offshore to spawn.”

Five Things Successful People Do Before They Go To Bed

The Toys To Watch In 2016

The Toys To Watch In 2016
Every year, attendees of the North American International Toy Fair set out to find which toys will be hot in the upcoming holiday season. Experts help by marking the trends and this year they are: connected play, unplugged, STEAM, soft skills, and even creativity. None of these terms surprise anyone.

How Playing Scrabble Can Make You More Strategic
Scrabble is more than a board game and more than a word game. The game can actually train you to think and act more strategically. And it’s fun.

Top Tips From Award-Winning Entrepreneurs

The Grateful Graduates Index 2015: The Top 50 ROI Colleges

Planning Ahead: The College Visit Circuit
A long time ago in a galaxy far away, before rankings, websites and constant marketing, I took a Peter Pan bus from New York City to Amherst, Massachusetts to see a campus called Amherst College. My high school guidance counselor had mentioned it in passing as a place I might like, so I figured, “Why not?”

Why Do Colleges Charge The Same For All Degrees?
How can universities continue to charge the same price for STEM and non-STEM degrees? It’s a knotty, tangled problem. Not unlike a bowl of my favorite food…

The Intern Group: How One Colombian Leader Connected the World
After a week in Medellin, Colombia, I did not want to leave.

Building Leaders And Opening Doors: BOLD Group Shines During Black History Month
Since joining JPMorgan Chase a decade ago as a senior executive assistant, Marlene Ruiz has made great strides in her career, thanks in part to her leadership in our firm’s Black Organization for Leadership Development (BOLD) program, a dynamic Business Resource Group with 23 global chapters.

Lifelong Learning: One Successful Approach For Staying Afloat In A World Of Change
There will always be waves of change in our lives, and it becomes critical that we adopt a thoughtful strategy to remain responsive to how both changes’ volume and velocity is impacting our ever evolving ecosystem. Ignoring these whitecaps or not having an approach to address change introduces material professional and personal risks. One successful approach for effectively staying afloat while navigating this stream of new but only sometimes improved changes is what I refer to as lifelong learning.

6 Tough Money Choices For Millennials — And How To Make Them

How Revolutions In Finance And Education Are Transforming Virginia’s Purpose Economy
Yesterday morning, the father of European venture capital, Sir Ronald Cohen, asked a room of nearly a hundred economists, policymakers, and financiers at a Brookings Institute event, who among them thought an extra $1 billion in aid would solve Africa’s education challenges. Not a single person raised their hand. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), are estimated to require a global investment of $3-4 trillion per year. Currently, total aid equates to about $150-200B a year, a fraction of what is required to meet the UN’s goals of solving large-scale human and planetary challenges. Sir Ronald indicated “it’s plainly obvious we need to attract capital to meet these goals.” True, but how?

10 Business Storytellers Who Win Hearts And Minds

How Much Is Too Much Rehearsal? Take A Lesson From Paul McCartney
A story from the Beatles’ glory days shows Paul McCartney’s level of professionalism.

How Being A Student Allowed Me To Meet And Learn From Dozens Of Successful CEOs
Just work on something you love to do and ask for advice

Bigbelly Bets Big On The Digital Trash Can
Bigbelly wants to transform its solar-powered trash cans into digital hubs offering Wi-Fi access, advertising, and data-collecting sensors.

Despite Academic Charade, U. Of Miami Basketball Team Could Miss Almost All Of Their March Classes
It’s time for the Atlantic Coastal Conference to drop its academic charade.

The Surprising Impact That Common Core Is Already Making On Schools
To keep up with the demands of the new Common Core curriculum standards, teachers have made major changes to their lesson plans and the instructional materials they use. Principals aren’t getting much push-back from parents about the switch to Common Core. And the number of students reaching proficiency on the new multi-state tests was much lower than on the state tests they replaced.

Colleges Where Black Lives Matter Most All Year Long
For young people of African heritage, as well as other students from different backgrounds—because HBCUs also value diversity—these colleges can be well worth a look, especially by those who want to make sure the historic accomplishments of African Americans are honored and used as inspiration every month of the year, not just February.

How Do We Know The New SAT Will Be Any Better Than The Old SAT?
The new SAT test rolls out this Saturday. The mandatory essay is history. Tricky vocabulary is supposedly gone. No more points off for wrong answers. Polynomials, however, are forever.

Four Steps to Raise a Creative Teaching Force
When a student fails, it’s the teacher’s fault. When a child misbehaves – it’s the teacher’s fault. And when the economy fails, that too is considered to be the teacher’s fault.

One Philanthropist’s Approach To Helping The Students Of Rural America
Since 2001, 250 low- or modest-income Lenfest Scholars have started college. All but two have graduated or are on track to do so. More than 50 have attended Ivy League institutions and earned advanced degrees. Nationally, only 21 percent of graduates of low-income rural high schools who go on to college graduate in six years. This Pennsylvania-based program is an enormous success—and an important one. It’s a remarkable example for other philanthropists: To believe in the young, invest in them, and support their freedom.

You’re Fired: Tips For Millennials To Get Back On Their Feet
Being fired from your job can be a traumatic life event, but it is not necessarily your failure. Whether your firing was fair, unjust, or somewhere in between, it is your responsibility to self-assess and muster up the strength to get back into the workforce. Here are some tips to make it a little easier.

10 States Millennials Will Have Most Impact For 2016 Election
Super Tuesday, the grandest primary prize of the election thus far is fast approaching. Nominations are imminent, so NPR revisited the recurring question: how important are young voters? According to census data, millennials are now the largest voting demographic, now outnumbering the baby boomer generation. Yet in the last election, they had the lowest turnout of all generations.

Students In Context: Assessing The High School Transcript And Profile
When we talk about college admission, we usually focus on the application and the sequence of events leading up to it. However, other ingredients in the mix often get overlooked: the applicant’s high school profile and transcript As much as colleges need to know about the students, they also need to know their context in order to make informed admission decisions. The profile and the transcript provide a lot of that context. The high school transcript provides the primary data for application evaluation. Admission officers from all types of institutions have consistently ranked it the most important element of a college application. (See link or chart below.)

The Real Debate On Education: Dinesh D’Souza Vs. Bill Ayers
Those of us who follow education have been waiting for the topic to come up at one of the many, many presidential debates. There’s been talk of “free” college among the Democrats, but the issues of school choice, vouchers, Common Core, charter schools, standardized testing and teacher evaluations have been almost non-existent. So what’s a debate lover to do?  I tuned in to watch political activists Dinesh D’Souza on the right and Bill Ayers on the left grapple with the topic of American exceptionalism.

Colleges Admit Quiet Students, Too
Susan Cain?s Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can?t Stop Talking captures a dilemma that can impact the college admissions process….What of the quiet, those young people who don?t raise their hands all the time or call attention to themselves in one way or another?

It’ll Take More Than Handcuffs To Stop Teachers Leaving
Forcing teachers to work in publicly-funded schools for a minimum period after training may help delay their departure, but it will not cancel their flight.

The Chickens Are Coming Home To Roost In The Great University Blunder
There was a time when a university degree was a virtual passport to success, but a generation is now realizing that they have been hoodwinked and all that higher education has given them is a hefty bill.

How To Create The Coaching Habit
A friend of mine was recently reading a book when she posted an observation onto social media.

“Irony: Buying a book to help simplify and organize only to get bogged down in the weight of the information it contains. Next step, the recycle bin…”

I chuckled. No book should be ironical. But many are.

Your Debt Sentence
Does $58,583 have any meaning for you? It should. That’s your share of the gross outstanding federal debt. Don’t fall into your own “debt sentence.” Follow four easy steps to reduce your monthly debt bill.

Building the Case for Skill-Based Education
Although it has been several years since the global financial meltdown of 2008 – which saw stock markets throughout the world crash and hundreds of thousands of people lose their jobs – unemployment in the United States remains persistently high.

It’s No Wonder Teachers Are Queueing Up To Leave – They Can’t Afford To Stay
A brain drain of teachers in search of a better life is exacerbating an existing recruitment crisis.

Bill And Melinda Gates Have Educational Superpowers
People who want to change the world better be able to communicate their idea effectively.

Living On A Prayer: The Prudential Center Rocks As Seton Hall Eyes 1st NCAA Tournament Since 2006
On November 11, 2007, the Seton Hall men’s basketball team moved into Newark’s 18,711 seat Prudential Center.  Since then, almost nothing has gone right for the team.  That was, of course, until last night.

University Of Missouri Fires Professor Melissa Click Over ‘Dangerous Conduct’
The University of Missouri has fired Melissa Click, the communications professor who used strong-arm tactics on a student journalist who was armed with a video recorder and then watched her career disintegrate when the video from the encounter went viral last November.

Negotiating the Nonnegotiable – The world exploded — and You haven’t even heard about it….
Negotiate the Nonnegotiable… Dr. Daniel Shapiro

3 Online Education Trends That Will Shape How You Hire In 2016
Four years after the first massive open online courses appeared, online learning is becoming part of the fabric of both student and professional life. 2016 will be a crucial year in the development of this powerful new tool.

10 Business Storytellers Who Win Hearts And Minds

Thawing from a Long Winter in Computer Science Education
While the market need to teach computer science skills is undeniable and while equity demands giving all students the opportunity to learn them, operationalizing this kind of education for all learners requires careful planning and execution. Under the leadership of Jan Cuny and others, the National Science Foundation has focused on curricula in secondary schools, including Advanced Placement (AP) and pre-Advanced Placement classes, as well as incorporating computer science in K-12 science classes and researching assessment in the field. Young students in grades K-6 should learn the basic ideas in computing and how to solve problems computationally. Students in grades 6-8 should progress to more complex computer science concepts and should learn about the people who have made computing possible to pique career interests.

Seven Ways To Prep Just Before A Speech
These tips will help you get your last-minute charisma in gear.

Stepping Stones Helps Botswana Youth Achieve a Sustainable Future
The village of Mochudi, Botswana is almost 7,700 miles from my home town in the United States, and about a million miles away in terms of opportunities for young people intent on earning a living. Last week, along with the rest of my SAP Social Sabbatical team, I was privileged to meet with some of these passionate young adults during a Community Service event. My assignment with two teammates, Michelle Dauer and Ezequiel Massa, was to share our financial management and marketing experience with the Yun Drimaz (or, Young Dreamers). This incredibly talented group of 18 – 24 year old performers sing and dance, and do “edutainment” to prevent and stop gender violence. Most have graduated from a leadership program called “Finding the Leader Within,” at Stepping Stones International (SSI), a unique organization dedicated to helping orphaned and vulnerable youths ages 12 to 25 be self-sufficient.

Sports Broadcasting 101: Breaking Into The Business Of Sports Media
Everything you need to know about pursing a career in sports media.

Nike Billionaire Phil Knight And Stanford Unveil $750 Million Scholarship Program
Nike cofounder Phil Knight personally pledged $400 million in cash to the new program.

Why It’s Best To Take Tests Early In The Day
New research finds that students perform best on tests at the start of the school day. And for every hour later in the day, their tests scores decrease, due to cognitive fatigue.

Where Can You Keep Up With Management Ideas?
Over the past 94 years, the Harvard Business Review has become a must-read for anyone keen on keeping up with the latest management thinking. Covering a wider range of topics form leadership and organizational change to marketing and managing people, the magazine has brought the thinking of Peter Drucker, Michael Porter, Rosabeth Moss Kanter and other management gurus to newsstands and coffee tables around the world. Published in eleven languages besides English, the magazine can claim to have brought management concepts and business terms such as Balanced Scorecard, Reengineering and Glass Ceiling to a global audience.

A Global Marketplace For Online Education In India
It?s a concept almost reminiscent of one of the bustling stops on the ancient Silk trading route that connected the east to the west ? marketplaces filled with eager participants from all walks of life purchasing goods from around the world. Except the platform is a little different: Canadian company SKILLSdox has taken their marketplace online, and they?re looking at millions of students ready to tap into a wealth of global educational courses right accross India.

From Sea Turtles To Skills Training: Local Youth Gain Job Experience At Shedd
Chicago’s beloved Shedd Aquarium opened on May 30, 1930, as the first inland aquarium with both salt- and fresh-water habitats. Since then, the Aquarium has expanded its offerings to include community outreach and education initiatives, and now functions as a vital landmark in the community, with nearly two million visitors from around the world each year.

How To Run A Meeting

Tech’s Vast, Surprising Debt To A Harvard Classics Major
Some tech champions can’t stand the liberal arts. They’re sawing off the legs of their own stool, overlooking the contributions of people like Tim O’Reilly, a Harvard classics major whose training guides have helped countless engineers.

Can Meetings Be Improved?
A startup offers a technological solution to bad meetings.

These Are The World’s Ten Best Teachers
The Varkey Foundation recently announced the ten finalists for the second annual Global Teacher Prize. Often referred to as the Nobel Prize for teaching, it awards $1Million to “one exceptional teacher who has made an outstanding contribution to the profession.”

9 Things That Make Good Employees Quit
Few things are as costly and disruptive as good people walking out the door. Dr. Travis Bradberry shows you how to make it stop.

5 Ways To Ace, or Blow, Your College Interview
Transcripts and resumes don’t move into dorm rooms; people do. If you leave the interviewer with the impression that you would be a great addition to the hall, you may get a bed to call your own.

The Best College In Every State
The best colleges and universities nearest you in this state-by-state roll call, all based on the FORBES America’s Top Colleges 2015 ranking. And since almost everyone is concerned with rising college education costs, it’s worth pointing out that it is far less pricey to choose a campus nearby.

Why Are Americans Angry? Maybe Education’s Doing the Opposite of What We Think
By Ross Baird and Dane Stangler

The Waitlist: Colleges’ Safety Valve, Students’ Purgatory
At this moment in the middle of winter, admission officers at four-year colleges and universities everywhere are deep into reading season. They’re combing through hundreds or thousands of applications to find students with the talents and abilities to power their campuses and keep professors happy. Some applicants will be immediate standouts; others won’t have the grades or scores or that “certain something” to be admissible. Many others will fall into a purgatory called The Waitlist , where they hover like the ghosts in “The Others” until June or July.

The Rock Cycle: Learn The Types Of Rocks & Minerals
The Rock Cycle is Earth’s great recycling process where igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks can all be derived from and form one another

Millennials, There Are No More Excuses To Keep You From Investing Now
Millennials are repeating the bad habits of their Baby Boomer parents. With little financial investments and no retirement strategy, Millennials are on a disastrous path. The time is now for to invest… no more excuses!