» Posted by Martin Weil on December 05, 2007

Focus on effort, not intelligence or ability, according to this study from Scientific American.

» Posted by Martin Weil on September 15, 2007

Accounting moves to the top in BusinessWeek's 2007 "Best Places to Launch a Career" study.

» Posted by Martin Weil on August 13, 2007

Parents, and students, are stunned to discover that a single college term's worth of textbooks can run several hundred dollars. Along comes AbeBooks to the rescue. Other sources promising savings of 50% or more on textbooks include Cheapesttextbooks and Ebay's Half.com. Pointer from The Consumerist.

» Posted by Martin Weil on February 13, 2007

Anyone with a student applying to, or in, college probably has confronted the fearsome FAFSA. Now, at last, comes TutionCoach, a website that, for a mere $59, demystifies the college aid process.

» Posted by Martin Weil on October 04, 2006

"Private tutors are a luxury many American families cannot afford, costing anywhere between $25 to $100 an hour. But California mother Denise Robison found one online for $2.50 an hour -- in India."

TutorVista is the web site cited in the Yahoo news article quoted above.

Thanks to EconLog for the pointer.

» Posted by Martin Weil on October 04, 2006

My Rich Uncle promotes itself as being able to fund undergraduate and graduate student loans at rates lower than those from the Federal Government. While I have no experience with this company, as the parent of a sophomore attending private university, their offerings look worthy of further exploration.

» Posted by Martin Weil on October 18, 2005

According to data released this week by the College Board, private university tuition rose another 5.9% in 2005, continuing the trend of prices increases exceeding the rate of inflation. Public university tuition increases "slowed" to 7.1% in 2005 from from their 10.5% pace in 2004.