UtahFutures website a resource for youth
(Nancy Van Valkenburg, Standard-Examiner) --School kids with the summer off can play online games or chat with Facebook friends, but they also can use their computers to prep for their future.
READ · Jul 06
Utah teachers prepare for new academic standards
(Lisa Schencker, Salt Lake Tribune) --More than 5,000 Utah teachers will go back to class this summer — to learn how to teach to new state academic standards that, in some cases, will go into effect starting in the fall. Over the next six weeks, teachers will attend four-day training sessions across the state to learn how...
READ · Jun 13
UtahFutures offers scores of new career and college prep tools
Now even more resources with new Learning Express Library partnership SALT LAKE CITY – When preparing for college you could spend $62 on test prep books for the SAT and ACT, $20 on a college guide book and $5 on a 12-pack of soda, or you could just relax and drink that soda while logging onto UtahFutures.org to receive...
READ · May 25
Poll: Students optimistic despite money doubts
(Connie Cass, Associated Press) -- The American dream of life getting better for each new generation feels like a myth to many of today's young adults. After coming of age during a deep recession, most expect to have a harder time buying a house and saving for retirement than their parents did. More than 4 in 10...
READ · Apr 18
