SAS Board Education Articles

As a former admissions officer for two "elite" schools -- one Ivy and one West Coast Ivy-equivalent -- I am in a unique position to offer some insights for parents that may be of help in raising healthful teens. Exasperated...

Steven Ma of ThinkTank Learning says he knows what it takes to get kids into top colleges. And he'll refund your money if he's wrong

A new research report released today, Older, Smaller, Better: Measuring How the Character of Buildings and Blocks Influences Urban Vitality, by the National Trust for Historic Preservation demonstrates how neighborhoods that protect and find new uses for older, smaller buildings are more economically sustainable, culturally vibrant, and opportunity-rich than those with only larger, newer buildings.

The country's achievements in education have other nations, especially the United States, doing their homework

"Why would someone pay $50,000 or $60,000 a year for a private university when they can dial up TED Talks?"

A brash tech entrepreneur thinks he can reinvent higher education by stripping it down to its essence, eliminating lectures and tenure along with football games, ivy-covered buildings, and research libraries. What if he's right? 

Much of the conversation around the “crisis in higher education” is needlessly complicated by nostalgia for a premodern university.

Meet the real gatekeepers of higher education, an unseen army of data-crunching salesmen who dazzle college administrators and perpetuate the arms race that sends tuition prices ever higher.

So where should you send them?  State universities that have been gutted by the culture wars?  Small, liberal arts colleges who are struggling without endowments?

Economist magazine says middle-class parents should give their children more freedom

Great video on many levels - student evaluation of teachers, entrepreneurship, college, et al,

It's harder than ever.