education

Online Schools Offer More Classes Than Ever

June 9, 2011
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Online schools are bringing college education to the masses. For a long time, the idea of a college education was reserved for those with wealth or high academic standing who could get scholarships. The average person couldn’t hope to afford the cost of attending a university. Then community and junior colleges arrived on the scene [...]

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Save Time: Plan the Night Before

June 6, 2011

When you have to get the kids off to school in the morning as well as yourself, mornings can be the worst part of the day. If you spend half the morning looking for Bobby’s other shoe, finding Sarah’s homework and wondering what you did with the car keys, you will no doubt be late [...]

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Don’t Overspend on School Supplies

May 30, 2011

When the single mom is struggling to get her assignments ready to hand in by the deadline, it’s nice to know that there is enough paper in the printer and a stapler available to hold the work together. But, when you have kids, you know how quickly the printer gets robbed of the copy paper [...]

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The Patsy Takemoto Mink Education Foundation Award

May 12, 2011

There is a lot of competition for scholarships for college, but that doesn’t mean that the single mom shouldn’t apply. Scholarships just don’t arrive, they have to be searched out and recipients must show that they are qualified and deserving of the award. Finding a scholarship that you are eligible for may take a lot [...]

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College Graduation: Are you Prepared?

April 27, 2011

Nothing can be more frustrating than wrapping your last semester of school with graduation looming on the horizon only to discover you are short a credit or two. Perhaps you’ve chosen your graduate school and discovered that some of your credits won’t transfer there.  It happens to the best of us can it can happen [...]

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Financial Aid: Are You Dependent or Independent?

April 26, 2011

So you are going to college, but you need financial aid. You may be an adult, over 18 and a parent yourself. Surely this means you are independent, free of your own parents? Not necessarily, at least not in terms of financial aid and FAFSA, the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. So what determines [...]

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What You Will Need to Apply for Financial Aid

April 4, 2011

Applying for financial aid is a complicated process closely related to doing your own long-form income tax in complexity. There are many steps along the way and many pieces of information you will need to provide before an evaluation of your application is completed. Since receiving financial aid may mean the difference between whether you [...]

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Financial Aid through Scholarships

March 23, 2011

Financial aid for college is any kind of financial assistance. Sometimes this comes in the form of student loans but it can also come in the form of scholarships. Scholarships do not have to be paid back. They are awarded on the basis of need or merit and can offset some or all of the [...]

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Different Types of Schools for Single Moms

March 9, 2011

When a single mom makes the decision to go back to school she has many choices to make. She needs to first decide what sort of school she wishes to attend because this option will affect many of her other choices from the financial aspect to child care and class scheduling. What every single mom [...]

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Pell Grants Ease The Costs of College

February 21, 2011

The murky waters of financial aid for college can be daunting waters to tread. There are so many options and so many hoops to jump through that it can be intimidating. Pell grants are one of those options, but what are they and how do they work? What Is a Pell Grant? A Pell grant [...]

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