Teens are well versed in social media, and now they are able to leverage a platform designed specifically for professional adults to grease the path to college acceptance.
LinkedIn, the professional networking site, has made a series of changes to its platform to allow younger people to create accounts and make themselves more visible to colleges and universities. CNet reports that "Teens can use the professional networking site LinkedIn in two ways: to research universities and to create profiles highlighting accomplishments that would otherwise be hard to include in a traditional application. LinkedIn made these features possible by lowering the age requirement for users to 14 in the United States and by launching what it calls university pages."
The move provides students with the same tools that adults use for job hunting, so they can use them when searching for the right post-secondary school.
Amazing Book Facts:
Did You Know?
1. Did you know that the Chinese invented paper around 105 AD? Before this, people wrote on parchment (animal skin) to create books.
2. Each second, 57 books are sold. Someone figured that in one day, you’d need 78 miles of book shelving to store that amount of books.
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When one launches into a conversation on the topic of “student research,” the discussion invariably turns negative. Whether it is diving down the rabbit hole of high-stakes testing or driving off the cliff of data security and use concerns, it can be a challenge to take a substantive look at the value and positive impact of student data.
It doesn’t have to be this way, nor should it. Groups like the Data Quality Campaign do yeoman’s work...
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