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Questioning College-Wide Assessments
Study calls Spellings Commission recommendation "misleading" because of wide differences in outcomes by academic discipline.
Faculty Gender and Student Performance
Whether a professor is male or female has little to no effect on how a student performs in the class, study finds.
'Black Women in the Ivory Tower'
In his landmark demographic studies of black America, W.E.B. Du Bois found that by 1880, 54 black women had earned...
'Tight' Bill, Modest Gains
Less than two weeks after the House Appropriations subcommittee for education programs delivered a major potential boost to the maximum...
More Momentum Against 'U.S. News'
In the wake of meetings this week of the Annapolis Group -- an organization of liberal arts colleges -- critics...
The Senate's Higher Ed Act Renewal
The U.S. Senate education committee fleshed out its bipartisan package of legislation to renew the Higher Education Act Tuesday, calling...
Solidarity No More?
An institute for labor studies finds itself facing the ax -- and its supporters are striking back.