(Los Angeles Times) by Rossana Xia and Teresa Watanabe. If you can’t simplify the following operation, chances are the state won’t let you graduate from community college: Algebra problems like this one are at the heart of a dispute over the level of math deemed necessary to earn an associate degree or transfer to a […]
Read More »(Business Insider) by John Marcus. DELAWARE, Ohio — Behind the deceptive quiet of a small college campus in the summer, things are buzzing at Ohio Wesleyan University. Faculty at the 175-year-old liberal-arts school, which has about 1,700 undergraduates, are preparing new majors in high-demand fields including data analytics and computational neuroscience. Admissions officers are back […]
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 »By Willard Dix | Once a cozy collection of fifteen or so private liberal arts colleges sharing one application form, the non-profit Common Application has grown into an organization that encompasses 702 institutions ranging from Harvard, Yale and Amherst to Appalachian State and the University of Wyoming. As the name indicates, it enables students to create an account and […]
Read More »(Business Insider) by Abby Jackson. Student-loan debt in the US has grown to a staggering $1.3 trillion, and the average 2016 graduate will have to repay more than $37,000. While it’s clear that college is more expensive than ever, surprisingly, there’s a correlation between the amount a student pays for tuition and their SAT score. […]
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