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Graduation exams can be 'ladder of social mobility' -- or useless
For more than a century, New York students have taken Regents exams in multiple subjects to prove they were ready for college-level work,...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 4, 20242 min read
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Gay's gone: Is diversity hiring dead?
Claudine Gay has resigned as president of Harvard University after new charges of plagiarism. "Confronting hate and . . . upholding...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 2, 20242 min read
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Activism gives bored, lonely students something to do
Students who've worked hard to get into prestigious colleges don't seem to have enough to do once they get there, writes Rick Hess,...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 2, 20243 min read
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Are educated people smarter? Link is weakening, says study in Norway
Cognitive ability no longer is linked strongly to years of education, concludes a Norwegian study published in published in Scientific...
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 31, 20231 min read
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Hey, hey, we won't pay: 40% of student debtors aren't paying
More than 22 million former college students were supposed start repaying their loans on Oct. 1 when the three-year-long pandemic pause...
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 30, 20232 min read
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Neither a borrower nor a lender be: States add 'financial lit' mandates
Should I borrow to pay tuition at a private college? How much will that car loan really cost? How do I write a budget? Wisconsin will...
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 28, 20232 min read
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Blame diversity-crats for turning humanities into decolonial, anti-racist 'beards'
Humanities professors, under heavy pressure to prove their discipline is "useful," have gone political, writes Tyler Austin Harper in The...
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 22, 20232 min read
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Men say 'meh' to college
The higher ed gender gap is widening, reports Richard Fry for the Pew Research Center. Fewer young men are pursuing degrees, especially...
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 21, 20231 min read
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College grads aren't baristas for life (usually)
The crisis for new college graduates is a media perennial, writes Kevin Carey in The Atlantic. "Find some recent grads working humble...
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 21, 20232 min read
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Gen Z: Whites are 'oppressors' -- especially Jews
"White people are oppressors," say 79 percent of young Americans 18 to 24 years old in a recent Harvard CAPS-Harris poll. "Nonwhite...
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 17, 20232 min read
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College fail: Are the Covid kids ready to learn?
"(Are you ready?) Yes, I'm ready . . . I don't even know how to hold your hand Just to make you understand But I'm ready (ready) to learn...
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 14, 20232 min read
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Free money! Grandpa Joe says you don't have to repay student loans
Free money! Grandpa Joe Biden knows you'd rather not repay your federal student loans, so he's doing his best to wipe out your debt,...
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 13, 20232 min read
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WVU gives students what they want: Good grades in easy classes
West Virginia University is cutting majors and firing professors to fulfill the utilitarian vision of its president, E. Gordon Gee,...
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 5, 20232 min read
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Yale, Harvard offer the gentlewoman's 'A'
Nearly 80 percent of grades at Yale are A's, reports Evan Gorelick in the Yale Daily News. That ranges from 52 percent in economics and...
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 5, 20231 min read
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'White flight' from overachieving Asians?
A "B" grade is an "Asian F" and a "white A," they used to say in Silicon Valley high schools. Maybe they still do, if they have enough...
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 2, 20232 min read
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Lonely on campus: Students are siloed, silenced
Afraid to offend each other, college students are "siloed and silenced," creating an epidemic of loneliness on campus, writes Samuel...
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 26, 20232 min read
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Colleges add career coaches: Students say 'career success' is a priority
Colleges are adding career counselors and urging students to start career planning early, reports Hechinger's Jon Marcus. Some are...
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 25, 20232 min read
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Ivy dreams, but what's realistic?
"Safe to say Harvard is out," Demar Goodman, who's black, told a friend when the U.S. Supreme Court rejected race-based college...
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 22, 20232 min read
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AP tests are tough: Is the bar too high for disadvantaged students?
"The basic philosophy of the Advanced Placement Program is simply that all students are not created equal," said the program's director,...
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 21, 20233 min read
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No hablo ingles? No es un problema at California community colleges
Immigrants can find classes in Spanish, Mandarin, Russian, Armenian, Korean and other languages at some California community colleges. ...
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 17, 20232 min read
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