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Such a deal: You're in! With a tuition discount! But is it worth it?

Such a deal: You're in! With a tuition discount! But is it worth it?

Such a deal: You're in! With a tuition discount! But is it worth it?

Competing for a shrinking numbers of 18-year-olds, hundreds of not-very-selective universities are admitting students who haven't applied, reports Bloomberg's Amanda Albright. Private colleges' "direct admissions" offers come with financial aid. But it still may be a dubious deal. Wingate University in North Carolina Wingate University near Charlotte, North Carolina offered $24,000 in financial aid to 20,000 students who used the Common App, Niche and a state-run system calle

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Such a deal: You're in! With a tuition discount! But is it worth it?

Such a deal: You're in! With a tuition discount! But is it worth it?

Such a deal: You're in! With a tuition discount! But is it worth it?

Competing for a shrinking numbers of 18-year-olds, hundreds of not-very-selective universities are admitting students who haven't applied, reports Bloomberg's Amanda Albright. Private colleges' "direct admissions" offers come with financial aid. But it still may be a dubious deal. Wingate University in North Carolina Wingate University near Charlotte, North Carolina offered $24,000 in financial aid to 20,000 students who used the Common App, Niche and a state-run system calle

Joanne Jacobs

2 hours ago2 min read

Alpha reality check: When it's open to all and virtual, outcomes are weak

Alpha reality check: When it's open to all and virtual, outcomes are weak

Alpha reality check: When it's open to all and virtual, outcomes are weak

Does Alpha School's "2-hour learning" model work for regular students?

Joanne Jacobs

1 day ago3 min read

Oops: The post-credibility university

Oops: The post-credibility university

Oops: The post-credibility university

DEI drove Tyler Austin Harper out of academia: He realized he'd been hired to be "visibly black first and a scholar second." Or not at all.

Joanne Jacobs

2 days ago4 min read

Get the academics right -- not dental care and DEI -- to help needy kids

Get the academics right -- not dental care and DEI -- to help needy kids

Get the academics right -- not dental care and DEI -- to help needy kids

The "whole child" needs to be able to read, write and calculate to achieve "wellness." Dental care isn't the top job.

Joanne Jacobs

4 days ago2 min read

Teach foreign languages, but do it better

Teach foreign languages, but do it better

Teach foreign languages, but do it better

The answer to mediocre teaching of world languages isn't no teaching at all.

Joanne Jacobs

5 days ago2 min read

How Viet refugees rose: 'They work harder'

How Viet refugees rose: 'They work harder'

How Viet refugees rose: 'They work harder'

Vietnamese "boat people" raised their American children to work hard in school and go to college.

Joanne Jacobs

Aug 72 min read

Parlez vous rien: Why require a foreign language that kids won't really learn?

Parlez vous rien: Why require a foreign language that kids won't really learn?

Parlez vous rien: Why require a foreign language that kids won't really learn?

Foreign-language requirements crowd out more useful classes -- and very few students will become fluent in a second language.

Joanne Jacobs

Aug 62 min read

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