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Online Summer School Tips for a High School Student
Many students have already enrolled in online summer school — or are thinking about it — but not quite sure what they’re getting themselves into. That’s OK! A lot of...
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How to Succeed in an Online High School
When the COVID-19 crisis hit, a lot of high school students who never intended to be online learners suddenly found themselves being just that, online learners. This felt like uncharted...
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Staying Connected as an Online Learner
Online learning is often considered to be good for people who aren’t very social. That’s not true. Not at all. Some of the best online learners, in fact, are extroverts...
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Now you're an online learner, what to do with your "extra" time
One of the things that many students recognize when they start taking classes online is that even if they’re working just as hard to master the course content, they suddenly...
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How to Find a Great Online Summer School
What should you be looking for in an online summer school? First and foremost, you want a program that has the classes you actually need — and credits that will...
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Organizational tips for successful online learning
You can go to school in your pajamas! You can study at 2 a.m.! You can take a day off if you need to! You’ve heard this about online learning,...
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12 Benefits of Graduating High School Early
One of the biggest myths about high school is that it takes four years to earn your diploma. In fact, a growing number of students are completing the requirements for...
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How to list a high school diploma on a resume: Why earning a diploma makes a difference
There was a time when people still had a chance to get an interview for an entry-level job even if they didn’t have a high school diploma. Those days are...
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Six tips to create a productive study space at home
Distractions, distractions, distractions! There’s so much out there to take our attention away from our studies. But you can easily create a productive study space at home, just by thinking...
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Ways to Improve Concentration and Focus While Studying for Exams
Do you need to do better on tests in high school? Well, here’s what you need to know: Tinker. Dabble. Doodle. Try. Does that sound like nonsense from Alice...
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Daily Writing Tips for High School Students
Writing isn’t one of those skills you learn in school and never use again — it’s a skill you’ll use for the rest of your life, no matter what you...
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Time Management Tips for Online Courses
Online college education has arrived. After years of playing second fiddle to traditional brick-and-mortar colleges and universities, online degree programs now surpass their on-campus counterparts in the quality of education...
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2020 New Year’s Resolution Ideas for Raising Student Achievement
Each new year is an opportunity for new beginnings. We resolve to make changes in our lives that will bring us closer to reaching our high-level goals: achieving professional success,...
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How to do Well on a Test: Preparation Tips & Resources
Ask students about their favorite school activity and you’ll get a range of answers. Ask them what their least favorite school activity is and they’ll almost all have the same...
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How to be a Good Student and Why it Matters
The pressures of school can weigh on students of all ages. Whether they’re in middle school studying for an algebra test, in high school preparing for the SATs, or in...
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7 Tips for Establishing a Successful Homeschool Schedule
Any discussion about the benefits or detriments of homeschooling starts and ends with the question: What form of education is best for the student? Researchers struggle to determine the total...
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5 Study Tips for Visual Learners
In a typical classroom with 20 students, there will likely be eight or nine students who remember best by seeing, five or six who remember best by hearing, and four...
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Why Study Latin? Here’s 8 Key Benefits
Language is a timeless tool that brings together the greatest minds in history. Great writers can create masterpieces by studying and applying the complexities of language. The root and importance...
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Managing High School Stress: 5 Key Tips
Does it seem like everyone else is just floating through school without a care in the world? Well, did you know that 49 percent of all high school students say...
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Back to School Organizational Tips for High School Students
It’s that time of year again. You’ve returned to school and, all of a sudden, it seems like the organizational strategies you’ve used in the past aren’t working so well...
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Which Is Better: GED or High School Diploma?
Every year, American students choose alternative routes to completing their secondary education. They have many different reasons for taking a nontraditional path to earning a high school diploma. For example,...
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Exercise isn’t just good for your physical health, it’s also a great study-booster. Researchers have learned that the part of the brain that responds to exercise‚ the hippocampus, is also...
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The best defense, it has long been said, is a good offense.So when it’s time to defend yourself from study distractions, what should you do? Attack!Don’t rely on willpower. Instead:...
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If you take notes while you’re reading, watching a video, listening to a lecture, or engaged in a classroom discussion, when do you review those notes? The answer to that...
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It makes sense that some high school classes are required. To some extent, after all, everyone has similar needs, like a basic fluency in reading and mathematics. To ensure every student has...
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More students and their parents are choosing online classes, but that doesn’t mean they know how to succeed in the digital classroom.That makes sense. Since the dawning of the formal...
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We can’t do what we do without our amazing employees. And, since we’re growing, we’ve been hiring a lot of new staff and faculty members lately. As such, we’ve had a...
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Quick: What are you doing this Thursday at 6 p.m.?How you respond to that question can be a bit of a generational Rorschach Test. That’s because, if you’re an adult, the first...
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Look, we’d love it if you weren’t reliant on coffee or sodas to study. After all, the key ingredient in those drinks -- caffeine -- has been shown to increase...
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A lot of students like to study while watching a show, listening to music, or sporadically messaging friends.Most people who do this think they’re good at maintaining a balance between...
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