Stuart Nachbar

High school students interested in serving in our armed forces must take an entrance examination called the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) The ASVAB is used to not only assess a recruit’s aptitude for military service, but also help identify their Military Operational Specialty — service-speak for job — if they choose to serve

Before becoming a writer, I spent ten years marketing Web-based job posting and resume tools to college career centers One outcome of this experience is that I gained considerable appreciation for career counselors and guidance counselors at the high school level

I've read about the decisions of flagship state universities to increase merit-based, not need-based scholarships to the best-of-best students, the ones who might have chosen an Ivy League school, or other highly selective private college This is not an academic strategy as much as it is an economic development strategy; state politicians do not want the best students to take their talents out of state, and possibly never return

During the last weekend in April, West Point cadet Caleb Campbell was drafted to serve in a different Army He was selected in the seventh and final round of the National Football League (NFL) draft

Last week, I was one of the first to see Ironman, the first summer blockbuster movie and the next hero in the Marvel Comics universe to come to the silver screen I like the movie so much I went to see it again in an early morning matinee

The March 18 USA Today had an interesting cover story in education politics: Colleges' debit card deals draw scrutiny The purpose of these deals is to foster computerized cashless transactions on-campus, for example purchasing books, meals or tickets to athletic events through a debit card that doubles as a student ID

These past weeks there has been talk in the higher education press about private lenders and state guarantee agencies either withdrawing from the government-subsidized student loan market or refusing to underwrite new loans These financial institutions cite either a cash crunch or a credit crunch, or reductions in the federal interest subsidy as the reasons for pulling back on such loans

Yesterday, May 11, 2008, marked the 100th anniversary of the first celebration of Mother's Day Although Mother's Day officially became a national holiday in 1914, it was first celebrated as memorial service in a Methodist church in Grafton, West Virginia, Anna Jarvis, credited as the founder of Mother's Day, proposed the service as a dedication to her late mother, who had believed that it would be a nice idea to have a memorial to mothers

Here in New Jersey, the Garden State, we have a governor who has just proposed to make $500 million in permanent spending cuts, refinance state debt, reduce municipal aid, eliminate two cabinet departments, and introduce tougher standards in math and science education These are proposals that you might expect from a Republican, but Jon Corzine is a fiscally conservative, moderate to liberal social issues Democrat

This day, May 6, 2008, I spot a front page headline in my local New Jersey paper, The Trenton Times that reads: Ewing HS vote is void a second time