Karen Afre, director of the Academic Skills Center at Dartmouth College, and her colleagues like to tell first-year students that they’re taking an extra, unofficial course called “learning how to be ...

Now is the time to think ahead and build an academic plan for a successful school year. Experts from Academic Approach share why this makes sense for your kid. We all know the feeling of having too ...

Doing well academically is more a matter of good organization than brilliance. Staying on top of your work will help you learn more and do better in your courses – and feel better. In fact, research ...

Juggling family, career and college coursework requires more than just a can-do attitude. Understanding how to manage your time is critical if you want to crush your academic goals, but you shouldn’t ...

Heading into her first year at the University of Delaware, Natalie Guida wanted to make sure she was taking advantage of all the resources offered to her so that she could make the most of her ...

High school is no joke these days. A whirlwind of responsibilities—including homework, extracurricular activities and even a job—can leave many teenagers feeling overwhelmed or disorganized. In the ...

While much has been written on the corporatization of universities, its effect on time begs further attention: Corporatization has sped up the clock. A 2001 survey conducted by MIT compared university ...

Time management is an important skill, one that most of us as teachers would say is essential to academic success in our classes. Yet we often assume it’s a skill unlike others—that students either ...

Time management is a skill that can and should be acquired, in a developmentally appropriate way, across nearly all grade levels. It becomes a critically important ability that can not only support ...

An essay should express continued thought and/or research on a particular subject. It is harder to collect and research information when it is all done at the last minute. Time management is integral ...