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Who Would SAT-Only Admissions Help? White, Affluent Students. News

Who Would SAT-Only Admissions Help? White, Affluent Students.

In this article for The Chronicle of Higher Education, Eric Hoover writes about the significance…

Frank ZhangJune 23, 2019

What If Colleges Used Only Test Scores to Fill Campuses? News

What If Colleges Used Only Test Scores to Fill Campuses?

Douglas Belkin writes for the Wall Street Journal about CEW’s recent report, “SAT-Only Admission: How…

Frank ZhangJune 23, 2019

New Report Says Women Will Soon Be Majority Of College-Educated US Workers News

New Report Says Women Will Soon Be Majority Of College-Educated US Workers

In this NPR piece, Dani Matias writes about gender parity in higher education and the…

Frank ZhangJune 20, 2019

Are Short-Term Credentials Really the Best Thing Since Sliced Bread? News

Are Short-Term Credentials Really the Best Thing Since Sliced Bread?

CEW Director of Research Jeff Strohl writes for Higher Learning Advocates about the spread of…

Frank ZhangJune 19, 2019

Graduating in 4 Years or Less Helps Keep College Costs Down—But Just 41% of Students Do News

Graduating in 4 Years or Less Helps Keep College Costs Down—But Just 41% of Students Do

Abigail Hess writes in CNBC about how the amount of time students take to complete…

Frank ZhangJune 19, 2019

Automation Is Remaking Mississippi Jobs: Are Workers Ready? News

Automation Is Remaking Mississippi Jobs: Are Workers Ready?

In this article for The Hechinger Report, Megan Conn discusses how technological advances are reshaping…

Frank ZhangJune 18, 2019

Education as a Meritocracy? Report Finds It Is Still Better to Be Born Rich than Smart in US News

Education as a Meritocracy? Report Finds It Is Still Better to Be Born Rich than Smart in US

Valerie Strauss writes in the Washington Post about the findings of CEW’s report “Born to…

Frank ZhangJune 18, 2019

Cuts in State Funding to Public Colleges May Be to Blame for a Decline in Bachelor’s Degrees NewsCEW MentionsMedia Coverage

Cuts in State Funding to Public Colleges May Be to Blame for a Decline in Bachelor’s Degrees

In this MarketWatch article, Jillian Berman writes about declining funding to postsecondary public education and…

Frank ZhangJune 18, 2019

Is College Worth the Cost? NewsCEW MentionsMedia Coverage

Is College Worth the Cost?

In this U.S. News and World Report article, Emma Kerr writes about whether rising college…

Frank ZhangJune 17, 2019