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You’ve probably been hearing the same mantra since elementary school - if you don’t get good grades, you won’t get into a good college, you won’t get a good job and you’ll end up living like a bum on the street…

All joking aside, your academic performance really does affect what fields you can go into and what type of job you can hold in the future. After all, you wouldn’t expect a straight-D student to get into medical school - nor would you want them to. However, whether you’re in high school, college, or graduate school, constantly dealing with stress can have a big impact on your overall academic success in any of the following ways:

Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings introduced new proposed regulations to help clarify how schools, districts and states implement policies and business practices under No Child Left Behind.

Among these proposals, Secretary Spellings has asked that high schools be required to use graduation rates that track cohorts of students as they progress through high school. Schools would be required to publish graduation rates for their total student population as well as every group tracked under No Child Left Behind: minority students, economically disadvantaged students, English as Second Language students, and students with disabilities.

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. According to the U.S. Department of Defense, over 722,000 high school students took the ASVAB during the past school year

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.

When I was in high school, I visited my guidance counselor to make my class schedule and research colleges. I had some idea of what I wanted before I came into the guidance office, so I probably benefited less than other students who were less certain about their career and educational options, or needed to speak to a counselor to get help on a personal problem.

Paul is a successful businessman who feels that he has a solution for the problems that face education.

\”If education was run more like a business,\” he says \”we\’d be far better off.\” Many of Paul\’s colleagues in business agree with him.

Estelle is a school principal and is tired of hearing business people make negative comments about education.

\”They should mind their own business and stop criticizing the schools,\” she says shaking her head. Most of her teachers share the same opinion.