Redefining College Admissions
The college application process is known for being a complicated and daunting endeavour but that is changing. Listen to what this college is now accepting in the place of traditional applications.
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Tue 06 Sep 2016
College or Resort? Hard to Tell.
College Tours aren’t what they used to be. Colleges have always been competitive in an academic sense, but that drive to outdo one another is creeping into other areas. The result is an impressive an…
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Tue 06 Sep 2016
Why it Isn’t Only Teachers You Should Thank
Apple for the teacher? What about those who teach our kids in ways we don’t always see?
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Tue 06 Sep 2016
How a Teacher Can Change a Life Course
Never underestimate the power of a teacher. Listen to this man’s story of a teacher that inspired a powerful change in his life path.
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Tue 06 Sep 2016
The Power of a Mentor
A powerful story, featuring Arel Moodie, that will remind all the educators out there why they do what they do.
Moodie has been quoted in The New York Times, Forbes, Businessweek and USA Today. He …
00:08:21 |
Tue 06 Sep 2016
Teachers loved & lost but not forgotten
Remember that one teacher who changed everything for you? So does Anna.
Listen to the full episode at www.hobsons.com/upgraded
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Tue 02 Aug 2016
The Surprising Benefits of Volunteering
American teenagers do more community service than any other age group in the country - a collective 1.3 billion hours a year. And more of them are doing it. Almost twice as many 12th graders voluntee…
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Tue 02 Aug 2016
Experiential Learning on New York’s Harbor
At this school in New York - the day starts on a boat
and then moves to the beach. Its city-dwelling students are learning through nature.
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Tue 02 Aug 2016
The Economics of Love & Sex
There’s an off-the-beaten-path course being taught at a Canadian university. It involves love, sex and economics.
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Tue 02 Aug 2016
Diversity On Campus: What Lies Ahead
We live in an increasingly diverse and global society. We need to be able to learn and work and live alongside people from a multitude of backgrounds. Increased diversity on our country’s college cam…
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Tue 02 Aug 2016
Timely Texts Cool the Summer Melt
There are many reasons freshly graduated high school students experience summer melt. That is, failure to follow through on their college-bound intentions. But research has shown that well-timed text…
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Tue 02 Aug 2016
Studying literature of the sea, on the sea
When students of this English course come to class - sometimes they need life jackets.
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Tue 07 Jun 2016
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