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Here Are the Top 3 Colleges in America for a Return on Your Investment — and Not One Is in the Ivy League News

Here Are the Top 3 Colleges in America for a Return on Your Investment — and Not One Is in the Ivy League

In this MarketWatch article, Quentin Fottrell writes about the latest CEW report, “A First Try…

Frank ZhangNovember 14, 2019

Black Student Loan Borrowers Are More Likely to Struggle Repaying Their Debts — Here’s Why News

Black Student Loan Borrowers Are More Likely to Struggle Repaying Their Debts — Here’s Why

In this MarketWatch article, Andrew Keshner writes about the CEW report “The Unequal Race for…

Frank ZhangNovember 13, 2019

DeVos Pushes Alternative Credentials, Flexibility in Speech to Business Leaders News

DeVos Pushes Alternative Credentials, Flexibility in Speech to Business Leaders

In this Education Dive article, Jeremy Bauer-Wolf writes about U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s good…

Frank ZhangNovember 13, 2019

AP-NORC Poll: Many Say High School Diploma Enough to Succeed News

AP-NORC Poll: Many Say High School Diploma Enough to Succeed

Collin Binkley and Hannah Fingerhut write for the Associated Press about alarming survey results showing…

Frank ZhangNovember 11, 2019

Applications to Business Schools are Down—But Women Are Making Modest Gains News

Applications to Business Schools are Down—But Women Are Making Modest Gains

In this CNBC article, Abigail Hess explores the gender distribution of business school applications. Hess…

Frank ZhangNovember 11, 2019

Federal Funds Will ‘Inevitably’ Replace States’, But Fights Loom News

Federal Funds Will ‘Inevitably’ Replace States’, But Fights Loom

In this Times Higher Education article, Paul Basken writes about changes to higher education funding…

Frank ZhangNovember 5, 2019

For Sale: SAT Takers’ Names. Colleges Buy Student Data and Boost Exclusivity News

For Sale: SAT Takers’ Names. Colleges Buy Student Data and Boost Exclusivity

Doug Belkin writes for the Wall Street Journal about how the College Board sells students’…

Frank ZhangNovember 5, 2019

With 475,000 Options, Does America Have Too Many Non-Degree Credentials or Too Few? News

With 475,000 Options, Does America Have Too Many Non-Degree Credentials or Too Few?

Michelle Cheng writes for Quartz about what the abundance of credentials available today means for…

Frank ZhangNovember 4, 2019

Superscoring Standardised Admission Tests Will Supersize Advantage News

Superscoring Standardised Admission Tests Will Supersize Advantage

Dr. Anthony P. Carnevale argues in an op-ed for Times Higher Education that superscoring introduced…

Frank ZhangOctober 31, 2019