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An Imperfect SAT Adversity Score Is Better Than Just Ignoring Adversity NewsCEW MentionsMedia Coverage

An Imperfect SAT Adversity Score Is Better Than Just Ignoring Adversity

In this article for The Atlantic, Richard Kahlenberg writes in favor of the College Board’s…

Nuo TianMay 25, 2019

Five Myths About Student Debt NewsCEW MentionsMedia Coverage

Five Myths About Student Debt

In this Washington Post article, Anya Kamenetz sheds light on common misconceptions about student debt.…

Nuo TianMay 24, 2019

Minority, Low-Income Students ‘Almost Exclusively’ Fueled Undergrad Enrollment Growth NewsCEW MentionsMedia Coverage

Minority, Low-Income Students ‘Almost Exclusively’ Fueled Undergrad Enrollment Growth

In this Education Dive article, James Paterson and Natalie Schwartz write about the increasing college…

Nuo TianMay 23, 2019

More Low-Income Students Are Attending College, But They’re Still Playing Catch-Up on Their Wealthier Peers NewsCEW MentionsMedia Coverage

More Low-Income Students Are Attending College, But They’re Still Playing Catch-Up on Their Wealthier Peers

In this MarketWatch article, Jillian Berman writes about inequality in the college system and low-income…

Nuo TianMay 23, 2019

Future of Work-Study: How Etats-Unis: Les Grands Groupes Financent les Études de leurs Employés NewsCEW MentionsMedia Coverage

Future of Work-Study: How Etats-Unis: Les Grands Groupes Financent les Études de leurs Employés

In this Le Monde article, Caroline Talbot writes about a Starbucks initiative that finances and…

Nuo TianMay 22, 2019

The Real Cost of School for First-Generation College Students NewsCEW MentionsMedia Coverage

The Real Cost of School for First-Generation College Students

In this NBC article, Esta Pratt-Kielley writes about the costly barriers first-generation college students face…

Nuo TianMay 20, 2019

SAT Adds ‘Adversity Score’ Amid Concerns That Wealthy Students Have an Unfair Advantage NewsCEW MentionsMedia Coverage

SAT Adds ‘Adversity Score’ Amid Concerns That Wealthy Students Have an Unfair Advantage

In this MarketWatch piece, Jillian Berman writes about the SAT’s possible introduction of an “adversity…

Nuo TianMay 19, 2019

In America, It’s Better to Be Born Rich Than Smart NewsCEW MentionsMedia Coverage

In America, It’s Better to Be Born Rich Than Smart

Richard Whitmire writes in this Hill op-ed about how poor, talented students do not succeed…

Nuo TianMay 18, 2019

The SAT’s Bogus ‘Adversity Score’ NewsCEW MentionsMedia Coverage

The SAT’s Bogus ‘Adversity Score’

In this New York Times article, Thomas Chatterton Williams critiques the College Board’s possible use…

Nuo TianMay 17, 2019