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U.S. Decline or a Flawed Measure?
New version of British rankings of universities worldwide suggests that American dominance is eroding, but is the methodology meaningful? Is Berkeley really No. 39?
Class Advantage
Scholar links the continuing economic divides in enrollments to the "adaptation" skills of the upper classes and the availability of spaces.
Evaluating Online Applicants
With the growth of virtual high schools, new issue surfaces for admissions officers.
Common or Elitist?
New battle emerges over online tools to let students apply with ease to many institutions. Is the Common Application about to face an entirely different form of competition?
Calculation That Doesn't Add Up
When critics question the validity of the calculations U.S. News & World Report uses to rank colleges, one answer the...
Hiding Adjuncts From 'U.S. News'
Everyone knows that adjuncts and graduate assistants do a lot of the teaching these days, right? Well, maybe not everyone...
SAT Scores Drop, Gaps Grow
By wealth and ethnicity, those groups that were doing well gain even more.
Competition vs. Learning
It's harder to get into top colleges. But do long odds encourage students to learn more or game the system? Study finds minimal evidence of the former, and much of the latter.