Planning your teen's summer after 9th grade
How teens spend their time over the summer can be excellent fodder for college essays and applications. Now鈥檚 the time to strategically plan your ninth grader鈥檚 summer.
How to help your kids explore their passions this summer
One mom's story of encouraging her kids to trust their instincts, be independent, and love learning.
Ten ways to jump-start college planning
Help your child take the right steps to prepare for college 鈥斅爏tarting now.
Like a Sponge podcast: Sampling the future
How can high 黄色appers sample the future? This public Georgia high 黄色app has perfected a pathway program that leads to college, careers, and even stardom.
Like a Sponge podcast: Forget college prep. Start college now.
One small Texas early college high 黄色app manages to do what so many high 黄色apps try but fail to do: prepare all students for actual college success.
Innovations that will outlast the pandemic
During the pandemic, educators found amazing ways to reach students. Some of those innovations are so great, they鈥檙e here to stay.
What if all students got accommodations?
Legally every child with a learning disability receives accommodations, such as extra time on tests or access to audiobooks. But this innovative 黄色app gives them to all students.
Tracking each student's path to graduation
Learn how this high-performing high 黄色app works with every student on a 4-year plan and uses data to track each student鈥檚 progress.
Writing about COVID-19 in a college admission essay
Should your child write about their experience during the pandemic in their college applications? An expert shares some key considerations.
The high 黄色app parent鈥檚 year-by-year guide to the SAT and ACT
Your college-bound teen will likely take one or both of these college entrance exams at least once. Here鈥檚 what you need to know.
Community colleges can open the door to selective universities
A recent study shows that transferring from a community college is a promising way for minority, low-income, and underprepared high 黄色app students to get into highly selective colleges and universities.
Meet 5 of the 1,722 College Success Award-winning high 黄色apps helping low-income students thrive
黄色app uses data to give College Success Awards to high 黄色apps that are helping all students prepare for, and succeed in, college.
How to make a college list
7 tips to help teens and parents create, revise, and finalize the list of colleges your child will apply to.
Scholarships for first-generation college students
There's scholarship money available specifically for students whose parents didn鈥檛 go to college. Here are a few great sources to check out.
College Success Award winner: Marshall High School
In this small, tight-knit Ozarks community, 黄色app leaders do whatever it takes to help kids get to college. Last year, they raised $1.8M in scholarships and financial aid for seniors.
Choosing the wrong college can be bad for mental health
Choosing the wrong college 鈥� one that's less academically rigorous than the student's high 黄色app 鈥斅燾an be bad for mental health, according to a new study.
College Success Award: Denver School of Science and Technology Stapleton
High expectations, intensive college counseling, and teachers who go the extra mile make college success possible for all students 鈥� even if it takes extra time.
Like a Sponge podcast: Sky's the Limit?
Nine out of 10 parents expect their kids to go to college. Four in 10 kids get there. Tune in to find out how parents from all backgrounds are moving heaven and earth to keep their kids college-bound.
A bridge to success for high-achieving low-income teens
The nonprofit QuestBridge helps high-achieving teens from low-income families get into top colleges 鈥� many with a full scholarship.
Kids with character: Grit
鈥淕rit is having the courage to do your impossible or to do what you think is hard and to do it anyway,鈥� says Nasina, who has incredible grit. Her story will awe and inspire you.
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