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Know before you go (with federal aid) to high-risk, low-earnings colleges
FAFSA will warn students who apply for aid to attend colleges where graduates earn less than workers with only a high school degree.

Joanne Jacobs
20 hours ago2 min read
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Dubious disabilities: 'It's rich kids getting extra time on tests'
At elite universities, growing numbers of students receive special treatment for ADHD, anxiety, depression and other conditions now considered disabilities.

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 33 min read
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Resist the AI apocalypse: Students want to be 'capable humans, independent thinkers'
Humanities professors can teach students to resist AI cheatbots and learn to read, write, converse and think.

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 22 min read
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US colleges rely on foreign students to pay the bills, staff research labs
International students play a key role in university research and tech entrepreneurship -- and their tuition keeps colleges open.

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 302 min read
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High schools require too many subjects -- and too little competence
Streamline high school course requirements.

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 243 min read
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C students will get automatic college admission in California
It's easier to apply to college, as less-selective schools try to "put butts in the seats." But are high school graduates prepared?

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 232 min read
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Visioning synergies in the School of Human Narratives
Corporate blather won't restore faith in higher education, argues an English professor whose department may be merged into Human Narratives and Creative Expression.

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 223 min read
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Idiocratic education
Relying on AI to do the math for you is "a recipe for idiocracy."

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 203 min read
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Unready or not, they're going to college
A third of high school graduates (or less) are ready for college math and reading, but a majority will enroll in four-year colleges.

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 132 min read
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UC San Diego adds remedial class in elementary and middle-school math
Without SAT or ACT scores, University of California at San Diego is seeing a "steep decline" in academic readiness.

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 122 min read
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Why are we sending illiterate high school grads to college?
If "open access" colleges raised standards, would students work harder to qualify?

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 32 min read
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Racial preferences by other names
"Socioeconomic" preferences often help low-income blacks, but low-income Asian Americans.

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 22 min read
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Harvard students fear tougher grading: 'I skipped classes and sobbed in bed'
Harvard students are distressed by the prospect of tougher grading standards.

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 12 min read
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Halloween cowgirls (but no Indians), Harry Potter and Holocaust victims
Colleges are letting students pick their own Halloween costumes this year.

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 312 min read
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Rebels turn right: Questioning leftist ideas is 'dangerous, alluring'
Rebelling against left-wing conformity, college students are moving to conservative spaces where debate and disagreement is welcome.

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 262 min read
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University of Florida tops new college rankings
City Journal's new college rankings list University of Florida as best in the nation for inquiry and student success.

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 262 min read
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Teaching inside the bubble: Students hear one side of controversial issues
Teaching one side of controversial issues has become the academic norm. Some professors reject viewpoint diversity.

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 173 min read
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'Meet students where they are' -- and then what?
Teachers and professors are told to "meet students where they are," but not how to get them where they need to be.

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 152 min read
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Harvard profs say students don't speak up in class (if they show up at all)
Harvard students skip class, don't do the reading and, if they do show up, are afraid to express dissenting views, say professors.

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 122 min read
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It's not a crisis: Students are saying 'no' to low-value colleges, low-pay majors
College enrollment remains strong at high-value colleges, but young people are wary of colleges and degrees that are unlikely to pay off.

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 112 min read
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