- Website of the Month: AccountingStudents
Accounting majors, instructors, and practicing accountants will find www.accounting students.com a useful resource for beginning Internet searches on a variety of accounting topics. Although the website is designed for students, both educators and practicing accountants will also find helpful resources. Recruiters and professors might also want to check out topics ......
- Developer makes a difference in lives of Harlem
children.
Real estate developer Daniel Rose is making a difference in the lives of hundreds of Harlem youngsters through a unique series of programs aimed at providing instruction, guidance and self-esteem building exercises to disadvantaged students. The Harlem Educational Activities Fund, Inc. (HEAF), of which Rose is president, was established in ......
- Teacher Gives Students Hope for the Future
Denwood Barksdale not only likes to teach, he loves to teach. As a result, he has been committed to the students at Blandford High School for nearly 20 years. Barksdale, however, is not the typical teacher, and Blandford is not the typical school. The high school is located in southern ......
- Edison, poised for growth, cites technology as an
essential component.
Edison Schools, Inc. (New York, NY) is the country's largest for profit school management company, managing 79 schools serving more than 38,000 students during the 1999-00 school year. Technology is one of the Ten Fundamentals of the Edison program, used every day by students and staff for academic and administrative ......
- A Class Apart: Prodigies, Pressure, and Passion Inside One of America's Best High Schools.
A Class Apart: Prodigies, Pressure, and Passion Inside One of America's Best High Schools. Alec Klein. Simon & Schuster Inc., 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020. 2007. 336 pages. $25. ISBN 978-0-7432-9944-2. "This book gives the reader a close-up look inside one of the most competitive academic ......
- Roping in the MBAS: Graduate programs face tough
competition for students.
Earning a master's degree in business administration can be a valuable learning experience. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The average new MBA with a job offer in hand will earn $92,360 during the first year of employment, according to the Graduate Management Admission Council's 2006 Global MBA Graduate Survey. GMAC, the McLean, ......
- TPR makes benchmarking easy.
One way to compete in a tight market is by offering a solution customers can't afford to pass up. That's what The Princeton Review (TPR; New York, NY) is doing, according to Robert Cohen, executive vice president of TPR's K-12 Services division, offering a new solution that delivers test preparation ......