The coaches will be placed in schools starting in January as part of a $10 million expansion of Arkansas Works, a state program to coordinate education, training and economic development. The three-year pilot program is funded by federal money, officials said.

Gov. Mike Beebe said the career coaches would assist existing guidance counselors at the schools by providing help to students in planning their careers and college goals.

“Our counselors are overworked in our high schools,” Beebe said at a joint meeting of the state boards of education and higher education at Pulaski Tech. “We’ve asked our counselors to be mama and daddy and social worker, disciplinarian, sometimes health expert. We’ve asked them to do everything in the world without giving them additional resources.”

via Arkansas governor announces career coaches, Web site for $10M work force education program | Washington Examiner.

“It’s been known for a long time that rejected kids tend to be more violent and aggressive,” says Roy Baumeister of the Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, who led the work. “But we’ve found that randomly assigning students to rejection experiences can lower their IQ scores and make them aggressive.”

via Rejection massively reduces IQ – 15 March 2002 – New Scientist.

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There are some implications here about pushing kids too hard into situations they are not prepared to succeed in.

via Information Processing: Do advanced education and a challenging career make you smarter?.

Universities and colleges have inflated values disproportionate to their value. A number of signs of the stock market bubble, technology bubble, and recent credit bubble point to the higher education bubble continuing to grow.

via Kapp Notes: The Higher Educational Bubble Continues to Grow.

via From Schoolyard to Workplace – Successfully.

via Dr. Paul White’s Blog » Blog Archive » Managing College & Career Anxiety — for Parents.