Education

By Dr. Marcus Goncalves Herbert Spencer, a prescient philosopher of the 1800s, posed the question, "What type of education is of most value?" Educators and parents alike still wrestle with that elusive question today. The goals of education tend to fluctuate with time. During the earlier part of...

Needless to say, it has been a disgusting year for for-profit education. Here are five for-profit education stocks that may have destroyed your career by annihilating your life savings this year: CECO, COCO, STRA, LOPE, and DV. After reaching record highs in 2008 and 2009, the for-profit education...

Over the 22 years that I have been a trader's coach I have listened to many traders describe the expectations they have for their trading career. Some of those expectations are built on a solid foundation of accumulated resources and others are built on wishful thinking. What are your...

The number of students taking out loans and maxing out credit cards to pay for post-secondary education continues to skyrocket. According to a new report by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the amount of student loans taken out in 2010 surpassed $100 billion for the first time ever. But...

The College Board released data today on the 2011 SAT test results, here are some highlights: 1. Following an uninterrupted trend that dates back to at least 1972, high school boys scored higher on average than girls on both the 2011 SAT reading test (500 average for males vs. 495 for females)...

Some not so surprising news in an era of a poor economy, dearth of jobs, and stratospheric college costs.  Recent students are showing an increasing propensity to default.  The figures here are deceiving as these are the default rates WITHIN 2 years of when the loan should be paid back.  According...

Interesting blurb via Reuters dealing with the jobs issue and Caterpillar (CAT).  Essentially what the U.S. is churning out (despite the most per capita spending on students in K-12, and the highest cost universities in the world) is not the type of product the CEO needs.  Another part of this is...

In 2006, Michigan voters overwhelmingly approved Proposal 2, ending state-sponsored discrimination via race-based preferences in college admissions, hiring, and contracting. But a recent federal court ruling has temporarily overturned the will of Michigan voters, opening the door for affirmative...

Cornell -- "In 1996 the Cornell University Registrar began publishing online median grade reports — an indication of the grades awarded in all undergraduate courses at Cornell. The move came in preparation for a much larger transition: the publishing of median course grades on Cornell...

If you ran a school, what would you rather pay to educate your students: $11,000+ or $600? The answer is obvious. It's not just about cutting costs; it's about affordability. Most schools can't afford to provide their students with a proper education in biotechnology because the costs are...

There are six factors that together dictate the price at which all options trade at, these include: 1. Strike Price: aka the “Strike,” is the price at which the owner of an option is allowed exercise their right. In the case of a call option, they are allowed to purchase the security at the strike...

First off, lets ask the question, “What exactly is an option?” An option is a contract to buy or sell a specific financial security, aka the option's underlying instrument, underlying interest, or simply “underlying”. For equity options, the underlying can be a stock, exchange-traded fund (ETF),...

The VIX as is commonly known, (Or Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index), is a popular measure of the implied volatility of S&P 500 index options. Simply put, this VIX index is a measure of investor nervousness, it rises as markets fall and falls as markets rally. When its value...