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The article discusses data from the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) that indicates more college students in NCAA programs are graduating as compared to previous years. The data illustrated that a majority of college athletes in Division I colleges graduated and that graduation rates improved for male college basketball players and baseball players.

Traditional calculations of graduation rates ignore students who succeed in graduating but don't do it in four years.

Ever so slightly, graduation rates for men's Division I basketball, baseball and football players are continuing to rise. The N.C.A.A. released figures yesterday tracking the graduation rates at 318 Division I colleges and universities for athletes who enrolled from 1997 to 2000.

This article discussed a survey done at a large, southeastern university in which 223 graduate students completed a survey about factors that contributed to their stress. They also discussed different coping strategies between males and females, as well as other ways to reduce stress levels.

Murnane focuses on the children living in poverty and the low performance of the students. His goal is to make the No Child Left Behind Act more realistic. The goal should be to concentrate on the children's growth as a student, not to reach an obtainable test score. The government needs to improve conditions of schools of children living in poverty. The author suggests that the poverty stricken schools need to strengthen their staff in order to change anything. The main goal of children living in poverty is to get them to graduate from high school. The rate of kids graduating from high school in low income schools is down a great deal of percent than suburban schools. Murnane gives his opinion of setting obtainable goals not only for middle class students, but students that come from a poverty stricken area.

The article highlights findings of a report released by the National Collegiate Athletic Association indicating that scholarship athletes continue to graduate at historic levels. An increasing number of black men's and women's basketball players, and more white men's and women's track-and-field athletes, are completing their degrees within six years.

The authors discuss how college students' overreliance on credit cards and accumulated student loans have left many graduates with outstanding debt and poor credit scores. Credit card companies aggressively solicit college students, who are enticed by the power a credit card grants. Upon graduation, students with large sums of debt may find it difficult to find a job or rent property due to poor credit. To counter this surge of irresponsibility, the authors propose colleges create programs to educate students on how to use a credit card responsibly. The problem with creating more programs is universities must spend extra funds to create and maintain such an initiative. The authors fail to propose an early education curriculum for younger children to immerse them in the area of personal finance.

Comments on the proposed rules of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) to close the gap of the graduation rates of black and white college athletes in the United States.

The authors discuss why head coaches for college athletic teams should be held responsible for the academic achievement of college athletes. They suggest that head coaches focus on recruiting students that can win games instead of students with sufficient academic achievement and propose that student recruitment by coaches be measured against graduation rates of student athletes.

Offers a look on some of the most recent academic reforms instituted by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the role academic and athletic advisors in carrying out those reforms in the U.S. in 2005. Mandatory academic support for student-athletes; Initial eligibility legislation and graduation rates; Overview of the new NCAA academic standards.

Recent graduation rates and classroom performance for college athletes has forced the NCAA to take action. A total of 112 teams were penalized for bad classroom results.

NASA has predicted a new mission to the moon in 2020, about the time current middle school children will be graduating college. This discusses the pick-up in STEM education in schools.

The article suggests planning financial literacy programs for students. Furthermore, the author shares with the reader that that there are laws in Oklahoma, Colorado, and other states requiring high school students to show financial literacy in order to graduate. In addition the article shares that Capital One has created branch banks operated by students at several schools as well as the National Endowment for financial education has created a personal finance curriculum that can be integrated into regular school curriculum. Research suggests that personal finance courses have not improved student financial literacy. Lewis Mandell suggest that students should be taught about finance and savings at an earlier age than high school.

The average American college graduate's literacy in English declined significantly over the past decade, according to results of a nationwide test released in 2005.

The latest NCAA graduation success rate report shows UD in the top 10 nationally with Notre Dame, Duke and Northwestern, among others.

The Educational Testing Service, the nonprofit group behind the SAT, Graduate Record Examination and other college tests, has developed a new test that it says can assess students' ability to make good critical evaluations of the vast amount of material available to them.

Many college sports teams who have athletes who perform well on the field are struggling in the classroom. Graduation rates for student athletes are not great but the NCAA is trying to fix the problems.