For the companies hiring them, the motivation is clear: college students spent about $36 billion on things like clothing, computers and cellphones during the 2010-11 school year alone, according to projections from Re:Fuel, a media and promotions firm specializing in the youth market.
CCSS is a set of clear college- and career-ready standards for k-12 students in the United States that details what they should know in English language arts; literacy in history/social studies, science, and technical subjects; and mathematics at the end of each grade.
Parents and students are always on the lookout for strong websites that will provide clear college information.
When you focus on value, the benefits of a college degree are clear: A college degree continues to be the most important investment you can make for a successful career and a brighter future.
Its members are alarmed by a government area by area review of post 16 funding announced last month - which made it clear some colleges would have to close.
The answer to the new N.C.A.A. requirement that Division I-A university football programs average 15,000 in attendance by 2004 is clear: those colleges unable to do so will have to make attendance at football games a requirement of graduation.
Yet this overcrowding also highlights the main reason to be skeptical that the current college surge will have anywhere near the impact of the Depression's high-school surge: it is not at all clear that colleges will, or even can, do right by their new students.
It is clear that college-going women do not understand the advantages of a women's college until they are guided to consider one seriously and even visit the campus.
Perhaps most important, the packets presented a series of tables making clear that college is often not as expensive as many students and parents fear.
