Paying for College

There was an interesting teaser in the Campus News email today, mentioning that the Education Department is seeking feedback that would help simplify financial aid letters. In the letters I’ve seen, the financial aid is listed as a line item that causes a lovely drop in what you owe RIGHT NOW but says nothing about […]

Facebook and Family

Oh, brave new world … that world of Facebook. Navigating it as a parent, I’m trying to intuit rules (or make them up) so that my kids don’t eject me from a FB friendship. I like FB … not love.

Halloween is coming

In case you hadn’t notice, Halloween will be here very soon. All the signs are there … cool evenings, walkways littered with downed leaves, apples from the orchard, cider, and BIG bags of candy everywhere I go…. oh no …. too many fun sized candy bars are just as damaging as a big one … […]

Parent Weekend

Reporting in from the field, your intrepid reporter spent the weekend hanging with college students. Yes, it was family weekend at DePaul and the car was loaded, the bags were packed and off I went to visit.

What is Learning Anyway??

Stumbled upon (all by myself, without the aid of the website) an interview with David McCullough, Pulitzer Prize winning author of many things historical. In the interview he says that he believes that “we’re doing a grossly inadequate job of teaching history to our children and grandchildren. I’ve lectured at more than 100 universities and […]

Anticipation …

Wow … October already! When I dropped my son off at school to begin his freshman year at DePaul it seemed like mid-October was far away. The reason it was on my mind was this coming weekend is Parent Weekend. Rob and I had resolved to wait for parent weekend to see each other,  as […]

Road Trip to the Future

How do you the percentage of graduating high school seniors who are going to college?  Addison Train has managed to go from 77% to 87% and they attribute it to getting kids started freshmen year with the goal in mind. As covered in the Chicago Trib this week, Addison Trail takes each of its 500 […]

Super Student Syndrome

A recent NY Times OpEd, written by James Atlas, talks about the rise of the super people, almost as  partial answer to issues I raised in an earlier blog. How can kids with PERFECT scores on ACT and SAT not get accepted to any college they apply to? He explains. The issue is that there […]