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Friday, November 11, 2011

IQ changes during adolescence and contact sports

Science Daily recently featured an article that indicated IQ can change about 20 points up or down between ages 16 and 20.

The University College of London study noted:

Adolescent IQs can go up by more than 20 points – the difference between an above-average score of 120 and a highly gifted child at 140. IQ's can also fall by up to 18 points.

This suggests that high school teenager should be engaging in activities that will accelerate their IQ.

According to Wikipedia, the average IQ in the US is 98, which is 31st in the world. This means an average American teen could see their IQ increase to 118 or drop to 80.

This has some implications for high school athletics. Soccer, for example, is not the contact sport that American football is but there are headers in the sport that suggest soccer players should wear manadatory head gear to protect the fore brain.

Rightrdia has also talked about Ricky the Rightard. All Ricky talked about was "knocking heads' when he played football.

Rightrdia thinks perhaps his head got knocked on too many times because Ricky just isn't a bright person.

Mothers may need to think about their kids playing contact sports. It really makes more sense for kids to be doing something more intellectual like learning to play a musical instrument, taking art lessons or learning to dance.

It seems intuitive that kids that are taking accelerated classes in high school and attending college after graduation may benefit with an IQ boost.

It's a "use of lose it" scenario.

When The Major was in high school, the standard joke was that most of the football players would end up in insurance or real estate. Ricky the Rightard works in insurance.

source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2051119/Teens-IQs-leap-adolescence.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_and_the_Wealth_of_Nations

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Sunday, March 6, 2011

Wisconsin’s Overpaid Teachers?

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The average income of a college graduate is $46,000 per year according to Simply Hired. The graph from Simply Hired provides more detail by occupation.

What it is peculiar is how the GOP wants the public to overlooks the excesses of billionaires and millionaires and the tax breaks that the top 10 per cent of Americans get from income tax, capital gains tax and estate tax.

These tax breaks for the affluent Americans actually exceed the annual incomes of most college graduates. Rightardia guesses what is good for the GOP goose isn't good for the public gander.

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Thursday, January 20, 2011

Is a Conspiracy Driving Rules On For-Profit Colleges?

Chris Kirkham kirkham@huffingtonpost.com | HuffPost Reporting

A Washington advocacy group is claiming that Wall Street investors have conspired with the Department of Education to craft rules that would damage for-profit colleges to drive down their stock prices. This would allow short-sellers to profit.

The new rules come in response to a growing body of evidence that for-profit colleges such as the University of Phoenix and Kaplan University have left college graduates with huge college loans. the students are unable to find jobs that provide incomes that allow them to pay the loans back.

The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), portrays the rule-making as little more than a ploy aimed at driving down stock prices of the publicly-traded companies that operate for-profit colleges so that short sellers can cash in.

Wall Street investors have been working with high-ranking education officials to craft regulations, allowing them to net millions of dollars through the short sale of for-profit college stocks.

Rightardia is not sure what CREW is barking about. Student debt is huge and the taxpayer is left holding the bag subsidizing for profit colleges that produce worthless diplomas.

The problem is that these "for profts" are evaluated by the federal government in terms of job placement.

The vast majority o the colleges are not placing the students in positions that allow them to repay their loans to the federal government.

The majority of these colleges need have their certifications for federal student loans pulled.

This will save taxpayers hundreds of $ billions.

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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Time Magazine: The Education Premium

According to the Time article corporations will hire nearly half of their new hires from college and require either a baccalaureate or associate degree.

The other half of the work force will have some college, a high school (HS) degree with no college or less than a high school diploma.Less than 10 per cent of those hired will have less than a HS diploma.

The smartest thing a student can do in these hard economic times is to stay in school and get a degree.

Although nationally unemployment is 9.4 per cent and far higher in certain states, mature workers with college have a 5.1 per cent unemployment rate.

However, when it comes to college graduates younger than 25 years, the unemployment rate has averaged 9.2 percent during the past year which is nearly identical to the national unemployment rate.

The corporate demand for students with baccalaureate degrees is about about four times that for those with an associate degree.

Secular Human taught tat 'for profit schools." Most of them produce students in criminal justice, medical assisting and IT, and award AA degrees.

An associate degree may be all that is necessary in these career fields. In IT certification in a practical technology like Microsoft server, Cisco routers or security is as important as a college degree and IT workers are expected to get certifications to progress.

The best thing a student can do at this time is to stay in school and graduate.

source: Time Magazine, "Where the Jobs Are and http://education-portal.com/articles/College_and_Jobs_Is_More_School_the_Solution_to_Unemployment.html

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Thursday, October 21, 2010

ONN: Thousands Of Girls Match Description Of Missing Sorority Sister

Thousands Of Girls Match Description Of Missing Sorority Sister

Rightardia has always contented that the right wing has the majority of American sheeple.

The Greek fraternity and sorority system on college campuses is a source of homogenized right wing Americans who are indoctrinated with conservative ideology and group think.

The Onion video is a great satire on the college stereotypes.

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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

The White House Blog | Top 5 Things You Should Know Before Heading Back to College

Posted by Julia Simmons and Sophia Solomon on August 9, 2010 at 2:24 PM EDT

Today President Obama is traveling to the University of Texas at Austin to discuss what the Administration is doing to meet his goal of having the highest proportion of college graduates by 2020.

Thousands of college students will be heading back to school in the next few weeks, so here’s a list of the top five things you need to know before you head back to school:
1. Many students' wallets are going to be a little heavier. The President has invested more than $40 billion in Pell Grants and provided support to help these scholarships keep pace with inflation in the coming years. The great thing about Pell Grants is that they are free and clear – they don’t have to be paid back if your family qualifies. Since taking office, the President has helped grow the maximum Pell Grant scholarship by $800. This is real money that students and families can use to pay for tuition and fees.llege

2. If you don’t have a job after graduation lined up and are stressed about health insurance, don’t worry. If you’re under 26 years of age, may be already be able to get on a parent’s health insurance plan – and all plans will allow this in September.

3. Not ready for a 4 year institution? Community colleges are a great alternative, and they will receive an extra $2 billion over the next four years to invest in degree and training programs that will prepare you for the jobs of the future.

4. If you attend one of America’s 105 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) or 225 Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs), your school might get a cut of $2.55 billion in coming years. That means better courses, facilities, and programs for you.

5. Interested in pursuing a career in math or science? The Department of Energy, in partnership with the National Science Foundation, will dedicate $19 million in funds for its undergraduate and graduate fellowship, scholarship, and traineeship programs.

Click here for more information on President Obama's agenda for higher education.

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Friday, August 28, 2009

Comedy Central: MBA Ethics Oath

John Oliver enlists the help of a former convict to convince business students to sign an ethics oath.

It's a sad statement that students are unable to commit to such a generic oath. Schools should insist student's sign this oath before they are admitted to an MBA program.