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Ninth-Grade Marks as Predictor of College Success
Study finds that educators can tell quite a bit from the freshman year -- and that colleges may be able to use this information in recruiting.
The Malia Impact: Counselors Consider Growing Interest in Gap Years
Data are sparse but positive about impact of taking a year off before college.
The Week in Admissions News
Fee for an honors college; the impact of “prior-prior”; a critique of considering race in admissions.
New Book on ‘Little Soldiers,’ the Next Generation of Chinese Students
Lenora Chu discusses her inside look at China’s educational system -- and what American colleges should know about the students recruited there.
The Fruits of Collaboration
An alliance of 11 public research universities shows that sharing data, ideas and practices can help more low-income students graduate.
NACAC's New Approach to Ethics
Jim Jump offers an inside look at the way the association changed its rules.
Fair Game?
PETA goes after a Yale postdoc for her research on birds, and some academics cry foul.
Resignations at ‘Third World Quarterly’
Much of the journal’s editorial board resigns, saying that a controversial article arguing in favor of colonialism failed to pass peer review but was published anyway -- and that the journal’s editor then misrepresented the process.