It’s Time to Have the Hard Conversation with Your Kids Who Are Heading to Campus - Student Research Foundation

It’s Time to Have the Hard Conversation with Your Kids Who Are Heading to Campus

All across America, students have been waiting eagerly to start college or return to the campuses they love. Some of them are lucky enough to have their schools welcome them to campus. But as soon as students are starting to arrive, some of them have wasted no time in making the mistake of heading off to parties on or off campus. Read more

Now Is a Great Time to Take Online Career Aptitude Tests - Student Research Foundation

Now Is a Great Time to Take Online Career Aptitude Tests

Attention Students!

Are you spending a lot of time around the house this summer? Or have you just learned that your high school or college will be delivering courses remotely this fall?

If that is your current situation, we have a suggestion for you. Why not spend some time now taking online career tests to reevaluate your possible college major and your long-term career plans?

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Alert Scammers Are Targeting Student Borrowers - Student Research Foundation

Alert: Scammers Are Targeting Student Borrowers

As you have noticed, it is currently difficult to get reliable, up-to-date information on student loan programs. Congress is tied up in knots about making decisions – any decisions – that can help students and their families plan how to navigate the coming school year or pay for it. And our President is writing up confusing new executive orders that will probably never be put into action.

In any time of uncertainty, scammers seem to know just what to do, which is to try to defraud people. And right about now, those criminals seem to have decided that students and their families are good targets for loan-related scams. Read more

Teachers Face Harder Decisions about Returning to School - Student Research Foundation

America’s Teachers Face Harder Decisions about Returning to School

As many American schools plan to resume classes soon, teachers are trying to decide whether or not to return to classrooms. That implies that there are only two groups of teachers regarding this issue – those who will go back, and those who will not. But in reality, a number of factors are at play as American schools reorganize in new ways. Read more

Teacher Communities - Student Research Foundation

Teachers, Why Not Make Facebook and LinkedIn Groups Your New Way to Connect?

When I was going to high school, there was a special dining room reserved for teachers. It was in a corner of our cafeteria and I remember seeing teachers heading back there carrying brown lunch bags and cafeteria trays. I have no idea what they talked about behind closed doors, but I assume they were happy to be away from students like me and my friends, at least for the duration of a lunch period.

Today, teachers’ lounges can be found in many schools. They, like that dining room I remember, are places where teachers can connect to each other, discuss current challenges and ideas, and enjoy being part of a teachers’ community. Read more

What Kind of Coronavirus Testing Will Your College Be Giving Returning Students in the Fall - Student Research Foundation

What Kind of Coronavirus Testing Will Your College Be Giving Returning Students in the Fall?

Colleges across the country have announced that they will test returning students for Covid-19, especially those who want to live on their campuses.

But what does “testing” mean? Does it mean pointing a handheld thermometer at the foreheads of students before they are allowed to enter their dorms? Does it mean blood tests? The tests that colleges will administer will generally fall into one of these two categories:

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