How Our Obsession With College Prep Hurts Kids
Making them regurgitate facts and study subjects like calculus, which colleges want to see, doesn’t prepare them for the world, says the education reformer Ted Dintersmith. From the Chronicle of Higher Education.
By Scott Carlson
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Big Money Comes to Inequality Research
Amid anxieties over growing disparities, donors and foundations are devoting serious amounts to studies of rich and poor.
By Scott Carlson
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Texas Foundation Halts Some Scholarships
A charitable foundation known for supporting scholarships for business students has told a handful of universities that it can no longer pay for the scholarships it committed to, forcing those institutions to dig into their own funds to support the students. The Roy F. and Joann Cole Mitte…
By Scott Carlson
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