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While your decision to home school is uniquely your own, it is great if you have the support of your family and friends too. Unfortunately, getting your friends and family on board can sometimes be challenging. For the uninitiated, home schooling can be a new and strange concept, even though we, as a society, have actually been home schooling for centuries. And, despite the current growing popularity of home schooling due to fa Read the rest of this entry »

With higher education tuition increasing at double digit year over year percentages an effective saving plan for your kid’s education is becoming much more important than it has been before. Most families will discover that their future higher education costs will be much more than they have saved for their kid’s education. This leaves many kids to be faced with obtaining financial aid to pay for a portion of their college Read the rest of this entry »

Financing an education can be a challenging feat, especially when borrowers have exhausted their personal savings and their state and federal financial aid options and still have educational expenses left to cover. NextStudent, a leading Phoenix-based education company, can help. Whether you’re a higher education student or the parent of a K–12 student, you may be eligible for a NextStudent Private Loan, a cred Read the rest of this entry »

Health living is among the things that we are constantly being reminded to maintain. As the scene of this world keeps changing so are the hardships that we have to endure. When we ensure that we are living healthily, we would escape the other costs that would usually come along with infections.

It is true that prevention is better than cure and this does not just apply when we are focusing on costs. We also need to u Read the rest of this entry »

EDUCATION’S FLY IN THE OINTMENT

by Robert DePaolo

As a grizzled veteran with thrity years worth of experience in public (and private) school systems I have been alternately fascinated and appalled by the relatively poor academic achievement levels among American students. As a school psychologist, I have also seen many students who would have “made it through” in previous times now being identified as learning d Read the rest of this entry »