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• Stress Management for High School Students: Strategies and Activities

  Chances are, you or someone you know suffers from chronic stress and anxiety. A report released by The Child Mind Institute found a 17% increase in anxiety among young people...

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• Trade School vs. College: Where Should I Go After I Earn My Diploma?

  No matter what kind of dreams they have for the future, every student wants to choose the path that helps them achieve their goals. Some high school students decide college...

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• How Many Credits Do You Need to Graduate High School? Mapping a Path to Success

  Taking the leap from middle school to high school, signing up for classes, and deciding on a course track doesn’t have to be overwhelming. You can take this challenge in...

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• Is Online School Better For Anxiety? The Benefits of Online Learning for Students with Social Anxiety

  Most students desire an educational environment tailored to their needs. Sometimes realizing that desire can pose a challenge. Students who struggle with social anxiety, for example, may find it difficult ...

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• 7 High-Paying Trade Jobs for High School Graduates

  Many people believe a college degree is necessary for landing a good job, but this isn’t necessarily true. While studies do show a link between education level and earning potential,...

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• 5 Side Project Ideas for High School Students

  Writing a novel, building a website, and starting a podcast are just a few side project ideas for high school students. Projects like these allow for exploration—an important part of...

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• Summer Reading Tips and Recommendations

  If you’re like many students, you’ve got a lot of reading to do for your summer classes — or you have summer reading that has been required by your school.  ...

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• How to Switch from Traditional Public School to Online School: Tips for a Successful Transition

  The global COVID-19 pandemic forced students around the world to shift to online learning. However, online education has been growing steadily since the 1990s. According to the National Home Education...

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• Tips for High School Students Taking Online Classes While Working Full Time

  There are 23 million people over the age of 25 in the United States who have yet to receive a high school diploma, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. People...

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• Online Summer School Tips for a High School Student

  Many students have already enrolled in online summer school — or are thinking about it — but not quite sure what they’re getting themselves into.  That’s OK! A lot of...

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• How to Succeed in an Online High School

  When the COVID-19 crisis hit, a lot of high school students who never intended to be online learners suddenly found themselves being just that, online learners. This felt like uncharted...

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• Staying Connected as an Online Learner

  Online learning is often considered to be good for people who aren’t very social. That’s not true. Not at all. Some of the best online learners, in fact, are extroverts...

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• Now you're an online learner, what to do with your "extra" time

  One of the things that many students recognize when they start taking classes online is that even if they’re working just as hard to master the course content, they suddenly...

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• How to Find a Great Online Summer School

  What should you be looking for in an online summer school?  First and foremost, you want a program that has the classes you actually need — and credits that will...

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• Organizational tips for successful online learning

  You can go to school in your pajamas! You can study at 2 a.m.! You can take a day off if you need to!    You’ve heard this about online learning,...

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• 12 Benefits of Graduating High School Early

  One of the biggest myths about high school is that it takes four years to earn your diploma. In fact, a growing number of students are completing the requirements for...

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• How to list a high school diploma on a resume: Why earning a diploma makes a difference

  There was a time when people still had a chance to get an interview for an entry-level job even if they didn’t have a high school diploma. Those days are...

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• Six tips to create a productive study space at home

  Distractions, distractions, distractions!  There’s so much out there to take our attention away from our studies. But you can easily create a productive study space at home, just by thinking...

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• Ways to Improve Concentration and Focus While Studying for Exams

  Do you need to do better on tests in high school? Well, here’s what you need to know:    Tinker. Dabble. Doodle. Try. Does that sound like nonsense from Alice...

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• Daily Writing Tips for High School Students

  Writing isn’t one of those skills you learn in school and never use again — it’s a skill you’ll use for the rest of your life, no matter what you...

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• Time Management Tips for Online Courses

  Online college education has arrived. After years of playing second fiddle to traditional brick-and-mortar colleges and universities, online degree programs now surpass their on-campus counterparts in the quality of education...

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• 2020 New Year’s Resolution Ideas for Raising Student Achievement

  Each new year is an opportunity for new beginnings. We resolve to make changes in our lives that will bring us closer to reaching our high-level goals: achieving professional success,...

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• How to do Well on a Test: Preparation Tips & Resources

  Ask students about their favorite school activity and you’ll get a range of answers. Ask them what their least favorite school activity is and they’ll almost all have the same...

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• How to be a Good Student and Why it Matters

  The pressures of school can weigh on students of all ages. Whether they’re in middle school studying for an algebra test, in high school preparing for the SATs, or in...

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• 7 Tips for Establishing a Successful Homeschool Schedule

  Any discussion about the benefits or detriments of homeschooling starts and ends with the question: What form of education is best for the student? Researchers struggle to determine the total...

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• 5 Study Tips for Visual Learners

  In a typical classroom with 20 students, there will likely be eight or nine students who remember best by seeing, five or six who remember best by hearing, and four...

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• Why Study Latin? Here’s 8 Key Benefits

  Language is a timeless tool that brings together the greatest minds in history. Great writers can create masterpieces by studying and applying the complexities of language. The root and importance...

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• Managing High School Stress: 5 Key Tips

  Does it seem like everyone else is just floating through school without a care in the world?  Well, did you know that 49 percent of all high school students say...

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• Back to School Organizational Tips for High School Students

  It’s that time of year again. You’ve returned to school and, all of a sudden, it seems like the organizational strategies you’ve used in the past aren’t working so well...

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• Which Is Better: GED or High School Diploma?

  Every year, American students choose alternative routes to completing their secondary education. They have many different reasons for taking a nontraditional path to earning a high school diploma. For example,...

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