The Advantages Of Pristine Boarding Schools

The education of your children should be one of your top priorities. This includes finding a decent school. When all the educational facilities in the area do not meet your expectations, your best alternative would be to send your kids to one of the reputable boarding schools in neighboring school districts.

Types of Boarding Schools

- Traditional schools offer classes for children who are motivated. They teach standard programs, and provide recreational activities during the evening and on weekends.
- Therapeutic schools are designed to help troubled children with behavioral problems and mild learning disabilities.

The Pros of Boarding Schools

The quality of education your child will receive at one of these school is often far superior than what is being taught at a traditional learning facility. Other advantages include:

• Less distraction – Living at school keeps your child more focused.
• Smaller class sizes – Teachers can pay more attention to their students. Kids who have trouble understanding a specific subject will receive help faster. Read the rest of this entry »

Top Law Schools

There is some debate as to which schools should compose the list of top law schools. There are a few schools that traditionally top the polls, but whether or not these universities are truly worth the cost is quite debatable. For those wishing to pursue a legal career path, though, it is important to know what these rankings actually mean.

The Three Tiers of Law School

Universities that offer a legal education are traditionally grouped into three “tiers” of fifty. The best schools are in the Tier One, followed by those in Tier Two and Tier 3. Traditional wisdom states that the best jobs to go Tier One students, while those in Tier 3 will have the most trouble finding employment. The most competitive bracket is Tier 2, with a number of public universities vying for prestige with some of the bigger-name American private colleges.

What Are the Top Law Schools?

As one might expect, the Ivy League is exceptionally well represented in the annual ranking of top law schools. Harvard, Stanford and Yale are traditionally near the top of the list. Columbia, the University of Chicago, and Berkeley usually follow not far behind, with schools like Cornell Law School, Duke, and Georgetown usually bringing up the remainder of the pack. These schools tend to have the best faculty, the most active donors, and some of the most competitive acceptance rates. Whether or not these schools are worth the price, however, is worth questioning.

A Realistic Look

Realistically speaking, the annual report of top law schools is incredibly skewed. Certain schools will always be in the top ten, and certain schools will never rise above the second tier. The quality of education at the top-tier schools is not necessarily better than that in the lower tiers, but the names certainly carry a certain cache with employers. Unless you wish to chase the top one percent of jobs, though, the top ten to fifteen law schools may not be worth the price of admission. Read the rest of this entry »

Film School Secrets – The Sure Route to Failure

One of the things that burns me up to no end is the fact that so many students go to film school and pay untold amounts of money for classes so that they will be able to realize the dream of becoming a successful film producer. Despite this fact, only one percent of them will even get a chance to make any kind of full-length film let alone make a great career out of filmmaking.

I think the fault lies with the way that the students are being taught in today’s film schools. Despite the fact that they learn about the history of filmmaking, universities don’t train their students to think for themselves and to become creative business people. Filmmaking is a business, and most students have no idea about how to network and make a business for themselves as a filmmaker. The issue starts with how the institution of public education began.

Going back many centuries top universities were institutions for the well-to-do and for the upper-classes. These were the only type of people deemed as being worthy of an education. On the other hand, it was expected that those of the lower class were expected to do menial work that didn’t require an education. Factory workers couldn’t read or write.

Only when the captains industries saw the need for their workers to be able to read and write and perform basic math, were people of the lower classes encouraged to obtain an education. That was when wide-spread public education got started to produce skilled but obedient workers.

Universities today are mostly based on the systems that were put in place from the start of public education. Students are given assignments, go from class to class when the bells ring and do their best to please their teachers. Read the rest of this entry »