Guide to Education Grants

Another Student Loan Resource:According to an article written by Paul Fain and Elyse Ashburn titled, “Congress Looks to Expand Tuition Tax Credits, May Tax Higher Education to Cover Costs,” that appeared in the Wednesday, May 16, 2007’s The Chronicle of Higher Education, “The U.S. Senate Finance Committee, as part of an effort to expand federal [...]

Another Student Loan Resource:For the hottest in what is happening online beyond MySpace, Digg and Flickr, you have to check this out. I am talking about SEOmoz.org’s Web 2.0 Awards, found at www.seomoz.org/web2.0. If you have not yet heard of the awards, this list covers the newest and possibly the coolest Web 2.0 Web sites [...]

Another Student Loan Resource:Apparently, preparing quality teachers is something that Congress considers very important, as “Last year alone, Congress appropriated $2.89 billion through the No Child Left Behind Act and $59.9 million through the Higher Education Act to fund teacher quality and preparation initiatives nationwide,” according to a May 18, 2007 article by Elizabeth Redden, [...]

Another Student Loan Resource:There has been a lot in the news lately about immigration legislation, which also extends to college students. There is a proposed act called the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, or DREAM, that would help undocumented minors who have been living in the United States to continue their higher [...]

Another Student Loan Resource:For weeks education researchers and policy-makers have been trying to come to a consensus on the best way to come to terms on policy that affects higher education standards. Although strides have been made, according to a May 22, 2007 article written by David Glenn, titled “Education Researchers and Policy Makers Still [...]

As a relatively young recent grad, I read this article just to make sure I wasn’t making the same mistakes and I thought I might get a sense of my new “competition” in the work force, so to speak.  Granted, most of these kids will grow up when they hit the “real world,” but if [...]

Another well respected personal finance columnist is offering new graduates, with student loan debt, excellent advice on loan consolidation. ScholarPoint Connect recently commented on an article by Sandra Block of USA Today
Michelle Singletary, in her “The Color of Money” syndicated column encourages grads to act fast to decide whether to consolidate before July 1, when the interest [...]