85% of College Admissions Directors Worry They Won’t Hit Enrollment Goals

By Kevin Mahnken (74Million.org).   Fifty-five percent of college admissions directors said in a recent poll that they were “very concerned” about hitting enrollment targets for 2017–18, up from just 31 percent in 2015. All told, 85 percent voiced at least some doubt about meeting their goals for the year, yet more evidence of a […]

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Who Benefits From the Expansion of AP Classes?

By Alina Tugand (The New York Times Magazine). … A.P. U.S. government, like the 38 other A.P. courses developed by the College Board, a nonprofit organization, is a difficult class. Students are expected to read college-level textbooks, grasp complicated vocabulary and concepts and spend 30 minutes to an hour each night on homework. At the […]

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