by studentrg | Mar 12, 2018 | Career Pathways
Do You Go to College for Job Training or Self-Discovery? Or Maybe Both? Let’s meet two students who have very different goals for what they want to achieve in college . . . Student A (let’s call him Paul) has always wanted to be a petroleum engineer. He fell in love...
by studentrg | Mar 8, 2018 | Career Pathways, Consortia Research
When do high school students start to ask, “What should I do with my life?” And what influences that decision? Here are some answers to those questions, based on research conducted by the Student Research Foundation in partnership with the Partnership for 21st Century...
by studentrg | Feb 22, 2018 | Career Pathways, STEM
. . . exploring common misconceptions about students with autism If you teach or counsel students, chances are you have heard a lot of myths and misconceptions about autism. You might have even come to believe some of them. In today’s post, let’s look at the truth...
by studentrg | Feb 19, 2018 | Career & Technical Education, Career Pathways, STEM
Many parents like to tell their children, “You can be anything you want to be when you grow up.” That’s empowering, but in many cases, it turns out to be inaccurate. One adult friend of ours, for example, decided when he was five that he wanted to be a jockey when he...
by studentrg | Feb 12, 2018 | Career & Technical Education, Education, Paying for College
According to “Why the State Is Talking Up Technical Colleges to High School Counselors,” an article that Emily Siner wrote for NashvillePublicRadio.com on February 2, the state of Tennessee has discovered some compelling reasons why technical colleges are a great...
