Admissions

A student's score went way up the second time she took the SAT. A civil rights lawyer is demanding that ETS and College Board validate the second score.

Grant checks from NSF and other funders won't go out. Meetings on grant applications won't take place. Impact will grow with length of standoff. Trump threat on border with Mexico alarms some Texas campuses.

Major education foundations aren't waiting for Congress to provide data needed to better analyze and serve students. They've partnered to get the data themselves and are encouraging more colleges to join them.

To help manage career college closures and protect students, Steve Gunderson backs a proposal for the sector to fund a new federal coordinating office.

Stanford becomes latest institution to drop the value of family homes when calculating ability of a student to pay.

Admissions offers shouldn't expire after a year, writes Chuck Staben.

Admissions work doesn't end just before the holiday break, writes Jim Jump. Early-decision and ethics issues still surface.