The City of Mount Vernon Youth Bureau and in partnership with the Mount Vernon City School District, presents The Rising Star Award, in an effort to recognize their peers for academic excellence and community service. This award will be presented to a high school or middle school student that has been...
The Scholarship being offered by the KFC Colonel’s Scholars Program provides funding for: tuition, fees, books, room and boarding. The awards can be up to $5,000 per year. The scholar could receive up to $20,000 over four years to help complete a bachelor’s degree.
To be eligible to compete for...
Middle school and high school students throughout New York’s five boroughs are being invited to attend the Riverbank State Park’s Annual College Fair on Saturday, March 5, 2011, from 12 noon to 4 p.m.
This is a unique opportunity to visit universities and colleges from across the United States under one...
The number of black and Hispanic students offered admissions to the city’s most elite public high schools is going from bad to worse. Results from the specialized high school entrance exams were released last Friday and the data is alarming to some. Combined, white and Asian students account for 70 percent...
You can help develop charitable qualities in your child by first practicing what your preach. Becoming involved in charity efforts is a great way of showing how helping others is considered responsible behavior and actually brings positive feelings of relief and peace in light of such a tragedy. Many young...
By Dr. Karen
I have worked with many parents who have been through a tough and difficult school period with their children’s teachers. The teacher was not as receptive to the child’s needs or supposedly disliked the child for no particular reason.
The parents claimed their child was picked on by the...
