A legal team that has won millions of dollars in the past over errors in standardized testing on Friday served notice that it would file a class action suit against the College Board and Pearson Educational Measurement over errors in scoring October’s SAT.Long-time critics of the SAT said that the lawsuit — and more that […]
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Harvard University has a $25 billion endowment and in 2003-4, only 6 percent of its undergraduates were of sufficiently modest means to qualify for Pell Grants. While Pell eligibility varies based on a number of factors, only 5 percent of Harvard undergraduates that year came from families with incomes less than $30,000.At Trinity University, in […]
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Gordon C. Winston Catharine B. Hill2Williams College
The growing concern about access to highly selective colleges
and universities was heightened by a soon-to-be-published study
of 28 of the most selective private schools in the US – “the COFHE schools”-
that showed that only 10% of their students come from the bottom 40%
of the US family income distribution (Hill-Winston-Boyd, 2005).
While […]
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Cooperative EducationSometimes called work study, this program allows you to alternate between semesters of full-time study and related paid full-time work. It takes five years to receive a bachelor’s degree under this plan, but you get a year’s practical experience, too. The Cooperative Work Experience program offers you an opportunity to earn college credit by […]
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Learning From the Pros
Every other Tuesday afternoon, from 2:30 to 3:30, Camilla Sanders-Avery’s students at Carver High School, in Birmingham, Alabama, have a videoconference with some of the most successful animators in Hollywood.The students display their animation projects and get immediate feedback from the experts. No sugarcoating here: “They tell you exactly what your work […]
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We recommend that America’s colleges and universities embrace a culture of continuous innovation and quality improvement by developing new pedagogies, curricula, and technologiesto improve learning…Do more to support and harness the power of distance learning to meet educational needs of rural students, adult learners and workforce development.
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The Future of Higher Education
It is time to be frank. Among the vast and varied institutions that make up U.S. higher education, we have found equal parts meritocracy and mediocrity. As Americans, we can take pride in our Nobel Prizes, our scientific breakthroughs, our Rhodes Scholars. But we must not be blind to the less […]
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Higher education: Priced out of reach?
By Holly Hubbard Preston International Herald Tribune
Talk about the real world. U.S. university graduates enter the job market with new degrees, all the confidence of youth and student loan debts averaging $19,200 - a 58 percent inflation- adjusted increase from ten years ago, according to figures compiled by […]
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