Category: News

Job recruiters have offered applicants a plethora of tips to help them nail interviews. Networking site Glassdoor identifies Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m. as being the best time to schedule interviews, since employers won’t be winding down or gearing up for the weekends, nor will they be too tired from their lunches to focus. No matter […]

According to a recent report from the New York Times, SAT scores will now include those of every Connecticut 11th grader in the state’s public school programs. Starting with the 2015-2016 school year, high school juniors will be required to take the SAT exam, a replacement for the previous test in place, in response to […]

If your two-year-old child has a better vocabulary than her or his peers, then he or she is likely to also have better math and language skills, as well as fewer behavioral problems once it’s time for kindergarten, according to a new study. Researchers from Pennsylvania State University conducted the study, which has been published […]

The Federal Communications Commission voted on Monday, August 17 to deny Dish Network Corp., and two of its smaller partners, a small business auction discount worth $3.3 billion. According to the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg, the FCC voted unanimously to refuse the discounts, citing that neither of Dish Network’s smaller partners could be considered […]

It’s a teenage rite of passage to have a phase that involves sleeping in until noon on the weekends and going to bed in the wee hours of the morning — and, of course, the accompanying “Why are you so lazy these days?” accusation from parents and teachers. It’s not really a surprise that this […]

Jump-starting kids’ academic careers seems to work, but at what cost? Research shows that kids who go to preschool do significantly better (about 21%) on math and reading tests in kindergarten than peers who do not attend. However, a new study has found that young students are perhaps being overworked. The new study, which was […]