Edsurge

JULY 26, 2022

Colleges don’t like to think of themselves as businesses, but a growing number these days are facing the harsh reality of falling enrollments and a struggle to make their financial numbers add up. The two universities say that other private colleges have expressed initial interest. And that’s possibly new, Marcy says.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Students deserve a chance to learn up-to-date topics that reflect how mathematics is being used in many fields and industries. Help us count the ways Algebra II, which covers topics such as exponential and logarithmic functions, is a typical university admission requirement.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2022

colleges and universities have traditionally stopped accepting applications for admission and have a good sense of who will be in their incoming classes in the fall. Related: After the pandemic disrupted their high school educations, students are arriving at college unprepared. By June, many U.S. Not this year.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2019

Actress Lori Loughlin appears in court to face charges in the college admissions cheating scandal related to her daughter’s admission at USC; she pleaded not guilty. Scales can tip in favor of donors , athletes and legacies; by some estimates these advantages double or quadruple an applicant’s chances of admission.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Karoline Jimenez visits and falls in love with Smith College, in Northampton, Massachusetts, during a visit as a senior in high school. LOS ANGELES — Karoline Jimenez will never know exactly why her dream college turned her down. It’s understandable that the public views college and admission with skeptical eyes,” said Robert J.

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Edsurge

MARCH 10, 2020

It’s seen as a gateway course to college success , with a bevy of research to support the contention. What if colleges were to rethink the importance and relevance of algebra? Jo Boaler, a professor of mathematics at Stanford, has written a lot on the topic. So why won’t colleges abandon the algebra requirement?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2023

The College Board, which administers the AP classes, had planned to remove the course, arguing that obeying the state’s “Don’t Say Gay” law would weaken it. The College Board was right to insist on maintaining its standards, and yet the cost to students could have been extremely high. It stood firm in defense of the unit.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

Only a handful of colleges and universities in the top-40 of the U.S. News & World Report national rankings had any significant online degree presence. Many graduate schools—including but well beyond professional programs— are increasingly moving away from relying on the GRE test for admission.

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2020

Over the past weeks, readers have asked us many questions about the impact of the coronavirus on education in many different areas, from admissions to advice for young children, from salaries to student privacy and whether school closures actually work. Related EdSurge article on this topic: Want to Help Schools Closed by COVID-19?

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2019

As outrage continues over the admissions scandal , legitimate college counseling providers are wrestling with how to address concerns bubbling among students who have been advised all along to play by the rules. The news hasn’t been buzzing among students like it has in recent news headlines, Piñero said.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2022

In high school, Carlos Granillo was a standout honor student and multisport athlete whose hard work earned him admission to the state’s flagship university, the University of Colorado Boulder. This story also appeared in NBC News. Credit: Michael Ciaglo for NBC News. BOULDER, Colo. — CU Boulder’s own data show Latinos were 13.7

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2023

And the essay on Russian Blue cats (like my Franny) is full of fun facts that I will definitely share the next time I’m at an awkward dinner party and at a loss for conversation topics. For college students, you can see the appeal. And cheating isn’t new. We’re entering a new chapter.” It may be as old as academia itself.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2024

Okay, so you’re going to college. But will the college you pick still have its lights on by the time you get to graduation? It’s a question more and more families are asking as universities and colleges face financial and enrollment challenges, close or merge. Jon: This is College Uncovered. Kirk: Is there a pool?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

college cheating scandal , I could have prepped my older son, Jonah, for college like a prize pumpkin at the county fair. Between our son’s stubborn resistance to our help, and our own ethics and laziness, we did very little to turn our kid into a tidy package for colleges. Any college that involved a plane trip was out.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

This year, I put a special focus on pandemic-related topics, particularly the effectiveness of “high dosage” tutoring and the lack of strong research evidence for several other ideas to help students catch up, such as smaller classes. PROOF POINTS: Test-optional policies didn’t do much to diversify college student populations.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Desirée Morales Díaz didn’t choke up when she recounted how her high school counselor hadn’t heard of the common application, the form widely used by college admission offices on the mainland. Related: Some colleges extend scholarships and other help to rural high school grads. Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

WASHINGTON — Like many high school seniors, Grant Austin Robert Simms was bombarded with marketing materials from colleges that showed euphoric students enjoying athletics, extracurricular clubs and the excitement of living on campus. A handful of conventional colleges and universities are coming to the same conclusion.

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2020

As the spread of COVID-19 forced closures of campuses across the country, college leaders have contemplated how to craft some of the most difficult messages in their careers. They have had to deliver painful news about commencement, new hires and construction projects.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2020

Dozens of elite college prep programs, from Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America to the University of Chicago’s Collegiate Scholars Program , have been established across the United States in the last 20 years, each with heartwarming stories of college success. More than 550 students applied over two years.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Latino students have been making progress in college and earning degrees at a faster rate than in the past, but not at nearly the same rates as their peers, a new report shows. The Topic: College graduation rates for Latino students. The Topic: College graduation rates for Latino students.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2017

Andrew Moe on the campus of Swarthmore College on Wednesday, Nov. Where does a high school senior whose parents didn’t go to college turn to understand the application process? What resources are available to a student from a remote rural area if she wants to apply to college? 18, 2015, in Swarthmore, Pa. submitted photo).

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

million acres sprawling across parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. He lives in a trailer next to his two grandmothers and earns grades good enough for a four-year college. Yet on the morning of the SAT college admissions exam, Nachae drives to the testing site from his home near Chinle, Arizona, looks around – and drives away. “I

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Victoria Dzindzichashvili attended college mostly part time and took 10 years to get her undergraduate degree. She transferred to the University of Massachusetts at Amherst a year later because she wanted to try the “traditional college thing” — dorms, dining halls and leafy quads. Part-timers at community college fare even worse.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2019

Mothers listen to a representative of the Chicago Gear Up program discuss best practices for helping their children apply to college. After decades working with families of high school kids, the federal program extended its model this year to provide support through the first year of college. Robert Aranda knew it was coming.

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Graphite Blog

AUGUST 24, 2021

If you're looking for more information about bringing media literacy into your classroom, we have tons of great resources and articles to help: News and Media Literacy Resource Center -- Here you'll find the best news and media literacy resources from around the web, as curated by our editors. Brightstorm.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Trial arguments closed last month in the Harvard University discrimination case brought in 2014 by Students for Fair Admissions claiming that Harvard discriminates against Asian Americans in the admissions process. The ruling in the case in federal district court is likely to favor Harvard. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 10, 2016

One , with the release of a new book ( BLOCKCHAIN REVOLUTION: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin is Changing Money, Business, and the World ) from Don and (his son) Alex Tapscott coming in May 2016 focused exclusively on the potential of blockchain, expect to hear much more about the technology in the popular press.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2018

1vyG is shorthand for inter-Ivy first-generation college student network. As a group last year, they got top colleges to waive application fees without making students detail family hardships, which they found humiliating. Next up: Persuade elite colleges to eliminate legacy admissions. What does that look like?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2017

WASHINGTON — Pssst: America’s colleges and universities know a way to stop, and even reverse, their big annual increases in tuition. But the colleges say that , for them, competition has resulted in their prices going up, not down. If they could talk to each other, college leaders say, they could rein in those discounts.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Related: The difference between being eligible for college and college ready. Increasingly, it is these social and emotional skills — like perseverance and collaboration — that are seen as key to success in college and the workplace. Related: The difference between being eligible for college and college ready.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

I came here for both — the training and the academics,” says Miller, who plans to study biology in college, of her decision to attend Essex Tech. Ideally, their high school graduates will be able to handle college-level work or step right into a good-paying job. Related: Modern apprenticeships offer path to career — and college.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 5, 2017

That’s because it is a subject I am passionate about and I tend to develop encyclopedic knowledge about topics that I’m drawn to. Once accepted to college, there are administrators and professors who may or may not recognize “hidden” dis/abilities like the ones I have as legitimate. Does wearing glasses mean a person can’t read?).

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2024

There are few topics in college access and higher education that inspire as much conviction from opposing sides as standardized tests. Opponents of tests have argued that removing tests from college admissions is the primary way to expand access. And yet, in the class of 2023, 1.9 million took the ACT.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Historically, career and technical education (CTE) was seen as a dumping ground for students who weren’t considered college material. Her middle school science teacher recognized her talents and provided a recommendation for the screened admission, STEM-oriented high school. Credit: Jessica Hill for The Associated Press.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In recent years, the group’s advocacy has led to changes in the district’s graduation requirements, to align them with admissions requirements for California’s university systems, and an expansion of funding for an after-school meal program that had been cut by the school board. Every year the group chooses an issue to focus on.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2017

But we here at EdSurge are keeping things serious, bringing you today’s most pressing edtech news in our fifth annual EdSurde Report. It’s all here, and it's totally not fake news. A new university, BarterU, is offering an unfettered array of free educational options—depending on what students are willing to give up.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

A few years ago I was speaking to a group of parents whose children had just started Hampshire College. A father asked a question that was on many minds: “How can your college be rigorous without grading student work?” At the college where I serve as president, we do evaluate student work; we just use a higher-quality method.

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