Alex I think the gap year programs are highly sort of underutilized. What do you think about the gap year program?  Rana I think the gap year program is right for a lot of kids. I think sometimes parents are...

Alex I’m joined today by Rana Slosberg. In addition to a Bachelor of Science degree in systems engineering from New York University, Rana has an independent educational consultant certificate from University of California, Irvine. She established her organization, Slosberg College...

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Alex Of the skills you teach now, which do you think are going to be most applicable to college students in five to ten years from now?  Dale Well, I’m all about time management and planner, so I think that’s...

Yale and Harvard Law School recently have announced they will dropping out of the College Rankings stirring up the age old controversy surrounding ranking colleges in general. There has long been criticism of the rankings system due to what is...

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