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Google Bans Paper Writing Sites

You know those term papers you can buy online to turn in for your school work? Well it seems that Google is now banning them from advertising on their website. Colleges, Universities and Educators have been completely upset with these firms and now Google is coming clean.
Google is not alone in turning off the purveyors (more…)

Engineering Degree Program

Engineering combines intellectual problem solving with physical construction. Using the laws of science and mathematics as their primary tools, engineers design, construct, operate and perform maintenance on hardware. This hardware can be a structure or a machine, and can be as minute as a microchip or as massive as the Hoover (more…)

Homework Wars

Slight and bookish, looking more like Harry Potter than Voldemort, Sean Gordon-Loebl has accomplished what more menacing students can only fantasize about: He persuaded his school to put limits on homework.
It wasn’t just any school. Sean, 15, convinced Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, one of the nation’s most competitive (cynics might say cutthroat), that (more…)