Countdown to College Radio

The AXA Achievement program provides both access to higher education via local and national scholarships (worth more than $1 million per year) and advice to college-bound families on topics such as financing a college education. Faith Frank, President of the AXA Foundation, gives the details.
http://www.AXA-Achievement.com

Joanne Levy-Prewitt, an independent college advisor who works with students in the San Francisco Bay Area, discusses the past year’s admission season and shares her observations on the need for financial safety schools on a student’s list, the importance of extracurricular activities, and more.
http://www.ggworkshops.com

Dr. Gary Lopez, Executive Director of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education, describes their HippoCampus collaborative online project (funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation) that brings high-school and college-level course content from the country’s best educators, and adds audio, visual support, and interactivity. Students worldwide use the site for free to preview, learn, or review course content on topics such as algebra, biology, physics, and history; teachers use the site (also for free) to create customized HippoCampus web sites featuring multimedia lessons from the HippoCampus database that they’ve pulled together to reflect exactly what they want to teach.
http://www.HippoCampus.org

Dr. Gary Lopez, Executive Director of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education, describes their HippoCampus.org collaborative online project (funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation) that brings high-school and college-level course content from the country’s best educators, and adds audio, video, and interactivity. Students worldwide use the site for free to preview, learn, or review course content on topics such as algebra, biology, physics, and history; teachers use the site (also for free) to create customized HippoCampus web sites featuring multimedia lessons from the HippoCampus database that they’ve pulled together to reflect exactly what they want to teach.
http://www.HippoCampus.org