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The new GED will assess college readiness, and in the process the testing service hopes to bump ACCUPLACER, a popular test for remedial needs.
When Non-Submitters Are the Norm
At Pitzer College, unlike most institutions that have gone SAT-optional, most applicants have stopped sending their test scores.
Opinion
Campus and Camp
For better or worse, a select group of students and parents get a dress rehearsal for the college search process in the American ritual of sending a child to summer camp, writes John Thelin.
The 100-Day Completion Agenda
Aiming to create visible, incremental progress toward longer-term enrollment and graduation goals, a SUNY community college is moving ahead with numerous short-term deadlines.
Booms, Busts and College Ambitions
As housing prices rose for some working- and middle-class American families, so did college ambitions of their students, study finds. Which leads to the obvious question: Are those ambitions now dropping as home values fall?
A Fractional Idea
A new paper suggests job market for new Ph.D.s could improve through the creation of part-time positions that are focused on research and go beyond the level of support received by postdocs and adjuncts.
The Shrinking Law School
By cutting enrollment 20 percent, the University of California Hastings College of the Law believes it's helping itself, applicants and the legal profession. Is this the future of legal education?
Choice on GRE Scores
ETS will let grad school applicants pick which results to report. Test takers are likely to applaud the shift, but will admissions officers?