Archive for April, 2006

Internet has negative and positive effects on kids

Sunday, April 30th, 2006

Between 75 and 90 percent of teenagers in the United States use the Internet to email, instant message , visit chat rooms and explore other sites on the World Wide Web.

Senate kills class-size proposal

Saturday, April 29th, 2006

Tallahassee The state Senate handed a stinging defeat to Gov. Jeb Bush late Friday, rejecting his push to weaken Florida’s strict caps on class sizes.

College Major Assessment

Friday, April 28th, 2006

A Quiz to Find a Major that Matches Your Personality

Are you thinking about choosing a college major? This quiz is adapted from a career interest assessment model developed by…

College Major Assessment Test

Friday, April 28th, 2006

A Quiz to Find a Major that Matches Your Personality

Are you thinking about choosing a college major? This quiz is adapted from a career interest assessment model developed by…

NCAA Will Monitor Prep Schools

Friday, April 28th, 2006

In what the NCAA hopes will be the first significant step in eliminating fraudulent preparatory schools and high schools, its board of directors yesterday gave college sports’ governing body unprecedented …

Admissions Questions

Friday, April 28th, 2006

What happens if you’re applying to a school that is part of the same university you got my B.A. from? Will they see this as a positive, negative, or…

THE BEN IS MIGHTIER

Friday, April 28th, 2006

Four years later, here we are.After 40 or so columns, I was hoping that for the final installment, I could do that whole “self-serving tribute to the people who helped shape me” thing. I could tell you about how fantastic professors like Ileana Oroza (to whom I owe endless gratitude for landing me at The Miami Herald), Sam Roberts and Sanjeev Chatterjee are, or how worthwhile being a resident advisor at Hecht and serving on the Honor Council were.