(Edweek) by Steven Sawchuk. Sharpen those No. 2 pencils: States that pick up the cost of college-entrance exams for all students can boost four-year college enrollment among low-income students, new research suggests. In effect, a mandatory entrance-exam policy helps remove one of the hurdles standing between those students and the track to a college degree. […]
Read More »(New York Times) by Susan Dynarsky | …Michigan began requiring public school juniors to take the ACT in 2007, and the share of high school graduates taking a college entrance exam rose immediately to nearly 99 percent from 54 percent. That growth was even sharper among low-income students; only 35 percent had been taking the […]
Read More »(US News) by Brian Witte. Your junior year of high school can easily become the Year of College Preparation. From standardized test review to building a strong resume of extracurriculars and challenging classes to preliminary research into colleges and majors, you will have many demands on your time. One way to buy yourself a bit […]
Read More »(PBS News Hour) by Jake Murray. The jewels in many an urban school district’s crown are their exam schools, competitive public schools that base enrollment on test scores. With a school like New York’s Stuyvesant, Boston Latin or Walter Payton (in Chicago) on their transcript, students are grouped with other, high-achieving peers, receive rigorous instruction […]
Read More »(Business World) RUSHI PARMAR lives in Keshod, a Western Indian town so small it has one park, a single-screen movie hall, and no shopping mall. For clever kids like Parmar, who is 12 and heading into seventh grade, the only option for a decent education used to be traveling to a bigger city at least […]
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