Does leaving for college mean leaving your faith? It doesn’t have to…
In the span of roughly two weeks, the American higher education system has transformed. Its future is increasingly uncertain. Read the article here.
Recent research shows that spending as little as 10 minutes in a natural setting can help relieve students of their college stress. Read the article here.
It’s that time of year when students of all ages face finals, standardized testing and college entrance exams. Read the article here.
Students’ high school grade point averages are five times stronger than their ACT scores at predicting college graduation. Read the article here.
Despite a decade-long expansion and record-low unemployment, studies suggest that between 60% and 70% of 18- to 34-year-olds rely on their parents for financial assistance. Read the article here.
In states where pot is legal, college kids use it more, but binge-drink less. Read the article here.
Doctors, teachers, lawyers and architects continue to dominate among the top career goals for the majority of high school students. Read the article here.
Forty-five million Americans owe a collective $1.6 trillion in student debt. One columnist describes why her daughter won’t be one of them. Read the article here.
Email is not the default for most teenagers, but it remains the primary avenue for colleges to communicate with prospective and current students. Read the article here.
On college campuses in the United States, students suffer concussions twice as often as believed, and most of those injuries occur off the playing field. Read the full article here.
New Year’s resolutions aren’t only for adults. You can help your teen organize life after high school by getting them to plan now. Watch the video here.
tudents today face mounting pressure not just to get into college, but to figure out how to pay for an increasingly unaffordable education by working or by setting themselves so far apart from their peers that they’re awarded scholarships. Read the article here.
A new Florida State University (FSU) study finds helicopter parenting continues well into young adulthood and can have devastating impacts on college students. Read the article here.
Tim Elmore blogs on an evolution taking place on college campuses. Read his post here.
The most-regretted college majors, according to ZipRecruiter’s College Grads Survey. Read the article here.
Record numbers of young adults in their twenties and thirties are still living at home, official figures reveal. Read the article here.
College students went one week without their smartphones. Read the article here.
Kara Powell shares some of her parenting errors to help parents avoid 3 mistakes she made during her son’s first month in college. Read her blog post here.
The statistics about college students’ sleep are grim. Read some help tips here.
Should high school students be competing for the highest grades? Read the article here.
For most kids, parents may offer a helping hand and some guidance in the process. But in the end, the pressure, the work and the final decisions belong to the teenager. Read the article here.
Data on MIT students underscore the importance of getting enough sleep; bedtime also matters. Read the article here.
This might be the first time you’ve raised these conversation topics with your child or stepchild, and that’s okay. The last year of high school is a natural opportunity to restart and revise your communication rhythms. Read the blog post from Fuller Youth Institute here.
Tim Elmore blogs about teh college admissions scandal and questions we get from our kids. Read the blog post here.
While the college ministry continues to operate without recognition, another university officially objects to its sexuality policy. Read the article here.
High school is stressful, but when you add in the pressure to get into college then the stress can skyrocket. Read the article here.
Fuller Youth Institute overs some helpful conversations to have with those who have just begun college. Read the article here.
Tim Elmore takes a look at some of the generational differences between Millennials and Gen Z and their views on higher education. Read the post here.
Narrowing down a college major is challenging because of several 21st century factors. Read Tim Elmore’s blog post about this here.
Research shows that students at CCCU schools are more likely to face a religious crisis than their secular counterparts. Read the article here.
Serious mental health concerns – like suicidal thinking, severe depression, and self-harm behaviours – more than doubled among college students between 2007-2018. Read the article here.
Multiculturalism has the characteristics of a primitive religion, albeit a confused one. Read the article here.
For many teenagers, summer break has become a multiple-choice pressure cooker, when they must decide whether to: (a) rest and recharge, (b) work and make money, or (c) rack up activities that stand out on college applications. Read the article here.
Education Department, universities are investigating the practice, which has been used in the Chicago area. Read the article here.
While most parents say they are doing enough to prepare their teen for adulthood, they gave low rankings of their teen’s ability to handle basic tasks. Read the article here.
Greg Forster answers the following questions:
What would you say to someone who doesn’t have a clear idea of their vocation after graduating high school? Go on to college and pick a generic degree? Trade school? Gap year? Something else?
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What happens when liberal democracy increasingly resembles communism, especially in higher education. Read the article here.
Most parents think they are doing enough to prepare their teens for adulthood, but they’re wincing a bit as the time comes for their young to leave the nest. Read the article here.
From tech to finance and the arts, college students and recent graduates believe they can have it all. Read the article here.
A study revealed that freshman boys saw bigger increases in terms of waist size and overall fat mass than girls. Read the article here.
From the article:
“Many factors are at play in the decline of teen labor force participation, including increased school enrollment, seasonal employment, decreased returns to work, reduced demand for low-wage work, minimum wage hikes, and competition from older workers or immigrants. Time pressure is another driver of reduced teen participation. Teens have many demands on their time and those demands fundamentally differ between the academic year and summer.”
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College admissions can stress out even the most cool, calm and collected of students (and parents). Read the article here.
Have you decided on the limits of your career? Read the article here.
Four countercultural insights for outgoing students. Read the article here.
Where did academic pressure come from? Read the blog post from Tim Elmore here.
The College Board has been testing a tool that could give the millions of students who take the SATs every year a score measuring their economic hardships and other disadvantages. Read the article here.
The EveryCampus coalition indicates we may be nearing a revival. Read the article here.
It’s graduation season again, and as more members of Gen Z transition out of high school and into their college years, they’ll do so with high expectations for their future careers. Read the article here.
Schools will teach your teen about important subjects such as math and science, but there’s another school parents and teachers may forget in their quest to encourage exam success: the school of life. Read the article here.
After languishing for a few years, support for teaching money-management skills to high school students has reignited, financial literacy advocates say. They attribute much of the newfound interest to worries about mushrooming student debt. Read the article here.
When it comes to paying for college, most teens like the idea of not taking on debt, according to a new survey by Junior Achievement. Overall, however, teens haven’t given much thought on how to fund their educations. Read the article here.
How should some recent experiments and changes on Instagram inform our leadership? Read the blog post from Tim Elmore here.
The adoption of one harmful behavior, such as heavy alcohol use, can lead college students into a vicious cycle of poor lifestyle choices, lack of sleep, mental distress and poor grades, according to a new study by researchers at Binghamton, State University of New York. Read the article here.
“Follow your heart” is a phrase that we hear in our culture often. But is that a good idea? Watch a video addressing this issue from Impact 360 Institute here.
Ascent Funding’s 2019 national study of students and parents explores their perceptions before starting college and the impact of reality once the college experience begins. Read the report here.
Tim Elmore discusses some skills that you should work to develop in your teens before they move out of the house. Read his blog here.
The First Things podcast features a conversation with Mark Bauerlein and Charlie Copeland to discuss the decline of free speech on the college campus. Listen to the podcast here.
Each generation produces a cultural shift, some more impactful than others, but this generation of young adults has undeniably brought on such a significant shift in the cultural mindset that it’s challenging for those of us in previous generations to understand. Read the rest of this blog post from Jim Burns of HomeWord by clicking here.
Augsburg College—now Augsburg University—has gone from “awakened” to “woke.” It has arguably conceded more to the secular progressive agenda than any Lutheran college or university in America. Read the full article here.
The question forces children to define themselves in terms of work. Read the article here.
Fear of failure can prevent students from showing what they know on big tests—but a 10-minute writing exercise can help. Read the article here.
There has been a gradual decline over the past few years in students enrolling in occupational education programs, trade schools, and apprenticeships. Read the article here.
L.A.-based startup Imbellus plans to upset the SAT and ACT’s monopoly with a test it says accurately gauges critical thinking. Read the article here.
Azusa Pacific University, an evangelical Christian institution that last fall notably removed its ban on same-sex relationships only to reverse course a few weeks later, has once again flip-flopped to allow gay relationships on the California campus. Read the article here.
Many college graduates with a four-year degree find themselves struggling to earn enough money to achieve their version of the American dream. Read the article here.
Wealthy parents were part of the biggest college admissions scam ever prosecuted by the Department of Justice, prosecutors say, accused of conspiring to get their kids into elite colleges through bribery and cheating. Read the article here.
What will these teens expect of tech based on their current experiences? Read the article here.
When college is held up as the one true path to success, parents—especially highly educated ones—might worry when their children opt for vocational school instead. Read the article here.
We need to talk seriously about the disconnect between parents and teenagers before kids hit college campuses. Read the article here.
Tim Elmore says that students “feel less dependent on adults to get them ready for the career they’ll choose to enter.” Read his entire blog post here.
Church pews may be full of teenagers, but a new study says college students might be a much rarer sight on Sunday mornings. Read the article here.
As soaring tuition scares off many families, a growing number of private colleges have embraced a marketing tactic associated more with selling airline tickets or flat-screen televisions than higher education: a price cut. Read the article here.
Even with 1 in 4 leaving over politics, college kids are more likely to return after a hiatus than leave for good. Read the article here.
Penn State recently revamped its online course for incoming freshmen. Students learn about alcohol safety and sexual violence. Read the article here.
Jim Burns from HomeWord offers his perspective and tips on preparing kids for college. Read his blog post here.
College students ages 18-24 are more than three times at risk for the potentially deadly serogroup B meningococcal disease (meningitis B) when compared with non-college students, according to a study published in the January 2019 issue of Pediatrics. Read the article here.
About one-tenth of college students say they’re homeless, according to Goldrick-Rab’s research.Read the article here.
As the college semester nears the end, an innovative experiment has shown the benefits of averaging eight hours of sleep for five nights during final exams week. Read the article here.
Young adults often leave the church after high school. The problem lies close to home. Read the article here.
As stigmas surrounding mental health issues have eased, more U.S. college students are seeking help for emotional problems, a new study finds. Read the article here.
Families jam their schedules and fret over finances to prepare their kids for college. But all this craziness comes at a cost to parents and children. Read the article here.
Anxiety, depression and panic attacks are sending U.S. college students to mental health clinics in record numbers, a new study finds. Read the article here.
What is it that sets apart the kids who stay in the church? Read the article here.
From the article…
“English professors have turned to a feelings-oriented approach to their craft. Instead of being the sage on the stage, they have become the guide on the side. They place greater emphasis on the thoughts and feelings or political ideas students put into their works than whether or not students are following – or even knowing – the grammatical rules of writing.”
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More than one in three first-year college students around the world struggle with a mental health disorder, new research suggests. Read the article here.
Since No Child Left Behind first rumbled onto the scene, the use of a Big Standardized Test to drive accountability and measure success has been a fundamental piece of education reform. But recently, some education reform stalwarts are beginning to express doubts. Read the article here.
Among more than 67,000 students surveyed, over 20 percent said they experienced stressful events in the last year that were strongly associated with mental health problems, including harming themselves and suicidal thoughts or attempts, researchers found. Read the article here.
Adding to a wave of recent studies highlighting the unique mental health challenges that teens and young adults face — oftentimes alone — a new report from the World Health Organization finds that one in three college students worldwide have a mental health condition. Read the article here.
Is spiritual and moral development primary, or even secondary priorities of one’s education? Read the research from Barna here.
The functionality is exactly the same as regular Tinder, although the UI looks slightly different: a badge depicting users’ universities will be displayed on their main profile image. Read the article here.
The New Millennium Belongs to This Year’s Entering College Class of 2022 in The 21st Annual Mindset List. Read the list here.
There are many paths to discipline and confidence. I typed my way there. Read the rest of the article here.
So … what are the best Christian books for college students? Read the article here.
What can be done to overcome anxiety? And why parents may be contributing to the problem. Read the article here.
It’s great for teens to get involved in their communities. But in addition to excelling in school, many feel pressure to overload their schedules with extracurriculars in hopes of improving the odds they’ll be admitted to the college of their choice. Read the article here.
Most schools say they’re preparing children for college and a career. Ted Dintersmith argues that today’s K-12 education is preparation for neither. Read the article here.
The road to college can be scary for small town teens. Read the article here.
Growing Leaders president Tim Elmore provides a summary of what he and his wife did to prepare their kids for their post-secondary experience. Read his blog post here.
Young people are getting paid less than their contemporaries in the year 2000. Take a look at the data here.
