The Texas Charter Schools Visa® Platinum Card (for real)
Some things just speak for themselves, and this is one of them.
From the Texas Charter Schools Association comes the Texas Charter Schools Visa® Card, which allows you to “donate with every swipe of your card!”
(Users of the card can, if they choose, ignore the latest results of the Texas Education Agency’s accountability report on the state’s charter schools. It says in its executive summary that “this evaluation provides little evidence that [59] new open-enrollment charter schools are improving students’ academic outcomes.” It also says: “In addition,
Why parents should leave their kids alone at college
This was written by Laurie L. Hazard, a psychology professor and a scholar of first-year-student transitions at Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island, where she serves as director of the university’s Academic Center for Excellence.
By Laurie L. Hazard
High school graduation has long been viewed as the first big step toward full-fledged adulthood and independence. Today, however, this “social clock” is changing, as both parents and many institutions of higher education relate to students in a way that essentially prolongs
