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Joanne Jacobs
Sep 1, 20243 min read
A debt-free bachelor's degree is not impossible (but it's not easy)
Confidence in the value of higher education is down , and fear of college debt is up, writes Rob Jenkins, an associate professor of...
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Joanne Jacobs
Aug 31, 20241 min read
Half of students don't want to go to college, but don't know what else they could do
About half of teenagers say they don't want to go to college right out of high school, according to a new Gallup/Walton survey , reports ...
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Joanne Jacobs
Aug 24, 20242 min read
Who's going to community college? High school students
Twenty percent of community college students are still in high school.
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Joanne Jacobs
Aug 23, 20242 min read
MIT's new class is 47% Asian as black, Hispanic admissions fall
MIT ended racial preferences and admitted more Asians, slightly fewer whites and significantly fewer Hispanics and blacks.
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Joanne Jacobs
Aug 18, 20242 min read
The trauma of the non-traumatized student
It's the start of the college application season, and 12th-graders are searching their lives for subject matter for essays, writes Robert...
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Joanne Jacobs
Aug 8, 20242 min read
Biden's education grade: 'D' for 'doesn't care about achievement'
President Biden's education agenda deserves a D.
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Joanne Jacobs
Jul 29, 20242 min read
New Title IX LGBTQ+ rules set off 'race to the Supreme Court'
Schools are supposed to start implementing new federal rules on sex and gender discrimination, starting on Aug. 1, but red-state lawsuits...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jul 25, 20241 min read
Urban charters boost scores, degrees in Massachusetts
Urban charter school students in Massachusetts earn higher test scores and are more likely to enroll in college and earn a degree,...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jul 19, 20242 min read
Vo-tech is STEM prep: Needy kids can't get in to learn a trade
High-needs students have a hard time getting into vocational-tech schools in Massachusetts, reports the Boston Globe. Most of the highly...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jul 17, 20242 min read
Biden forgives college loans, but young voters move right
Forgiving student loans -- more than $160 million so far -- and lowering monthly payments doesn't seem to be helping Biden very much with...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jul 12, 20241 min read
From Walmart Academy to a bachelor's degree in business
With credit for workplace training and Walmart’s tuition-assistance program, Bonnie Boop earned an online business degree, reports NPR's...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jul 11, 20243 min read
Conservative students learn to argue in college -- liberals stay in their bubble
Conservative students sharpen their ideas and listen to alternative perspectives -- they learn -- on very liberal college campuses,...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jul 10, 20243 min read
Up, up and away: 'Recalibration' is raising AP exam scores
Advanced Placement scores were released this week, and they're higher than ever. But not necessarily because students are learning more....
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Joanne Jacobs
Jul 6, 20241 min read
Tests may be 'optional,' but not if you want to get in to an elite college
Yale is not “being honest about the reality of our admissions process” because the university is “denying 98 percent of the students who...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jul 5, 20242 min read
The college pitch: How students write personal essays
Minority students are only slightly less likely to write about their racial or ethnic identity in college admissions essays, according to...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 22, 20242 min read
Politicizing humanities leaves grads still seeking deep, impractical learning
Colleges have politicized the humanities, leaving graduates feeling cheated of a liberal arts education.
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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 18, 20242 min read
Who's burning Berkeley?
A self-declared "scholar activist" who campaigned for prison abolition may get firsthand experience with the prison system. Casey Goonan,...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 17, 20241 min read
Bobo: Don't talk about Harvard's faults, no, no, no
A Harvard dean wants to punish professors who criticize Harvard.
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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 9, 20243 min read
Elite angst: The privileged hate (and hoard) privilege
Privileged college students accuse others of "privilege."
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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 8, 20241 min read
Young and gay
The Ivy League is not very heterosexual, notes Rod Dreher. You'll see that the percentages of LGBTQ+ students nearly tripled at Brown...
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