NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–A new Kaplan survey of nearly 1,000 PSAT students reveals why so many aspiring college students put so much effort into doing well on the exam: to get better prepared for the SAT® and to earn money for college*. The findings come as 3.8 million test takers across the country who took the […]
Read More »(The Washington Post) By Valerie Strauss — Here are highlights of the newly released 2012 scores from the Program of International Student Assessment, an exam given every three years to 15 year olds around the world in reading, math and science. In this administration of PISA, 65 countries and education systems participated. Connecticut, Florida, and […]
Read More »(The Washington Post) By Anthony P. Carnevale In the post-World War II era, whites fled the center city to the leafy-green suburbs and better neighborhood schools. Today, a similar trend has taken root in American higher education, only this time whites are fleeing the underfunded and overcrowded two-year and four-year open-access colleges for the nation’s […]
Read More »(Edsource) By Pat Maoi — A new report from ACT, the Iowa-based college admissions testing company, has mixed results for California, showing that the state’s 2016 high school graduates had greater interest in pursuing STEM-related college majors or career opportunities than the national average but minimal interest in teaching the subjects. The ACT report, “The Condition of […]
Read More »(Washington Post) By Bruce Horovitz — Whatever you think you know about college costs, you’re wrong. It’s going to cost more. Lots more. For many families, college’s hidden costs will probably be a prime topic of discussion this Thanksgiving weekend, when students filter home – many for the first time since school started – for […]
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