Education

Comic Books Teaching Personal Finance Says A Lot About Our Education

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I love talking about money. And I’ve read comic books since I was a kid. So I was definitely interested when I saw the news that Visa is partnering with Marvel to produce personal finance educational comic books. The new comic, “Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket’s Powerful Plan,” is meant to teach kids about “saving up for […]

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Are MBA Degrees a Good Investment?

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Several studies and statistic show that MBA graduates earn, on average, significantly higher wages than non-MBAs. These results remained consistent even after the financial meltdown. Some labor market experts also affirm that most recruiters, faced with a tie between two candidates who offer a comparable value for a job, will pick someone with an MBA […]

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When’s the Right Time to Get a Master’s Degree?

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There were 693,025 MA degree graduates for the year ending June 2010, the last year of complete data.  The MA is still relatively small compared to 1.6 million BA degree candidates, but the MA degree has the highest growth rate of degrees including the AA, BA and Ph.D. From 1990 to 2010, that growth was […]

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Can Internet Competition Open Up the Textbook Market?

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The market for college textbooks has never worked well. In the age before the Internet, new books tended to be sold as a monopoly in the college bookstore. After the first semester of a new textbook, a used book market emerges that competes with new books sold at the bookstore. Used books remain as a […]

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Who’s to Blame for College Financial Aid Shortfalls?

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The Education Trust, a nonprofit advocacy group, recently released a report titled “Opportunity Adrift” that criticizes the financial aid practices of public universities. The report used data from 2003 to 2007. The report accuses public research universities of increasing the amount of aid to students whose parents make at least $115,000 a year by 28 […]

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