Joanne JacobsJan 102 minTruancy is the 'new normal' -- and a growing businessTracking down absent students and persuading their parents to get them to school every day is a booming business, writes Alex MacGillis...
Joanne JacobsJan 91 minTo gain public trust, make college admissions less 'murky'College admissions are "murky," and getting murkier, writes Peter Arcidiacono, a Duke economics professor, on Persuasion. "Test-optional"...
Joanne JacobsJan 92 minWhy Americans don't trust higher ed: It's the lying and the whiningOnly 36 percent of Americans expressed "a great deal" or "quite a lot" of trust in higher education in a 2023 Gallup survey, down from 57...
Joanne JacobsJan 82 minSAT/ACT scores predict success, open doors for 'diverse' studentsWant equity? Require college applicants to submit SAT or ACT scores, writes David Leonhardt in the New York Times. The progressives' "war...