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The Science of Collaboration
The culture of scientific research needs a major shakeup to tackle the challenges facing society, a new report asserts.
Class Matters
Even high school valedictorians from lower-income backgrounds generally fail to enroll in top colleges, a study finds.
Crowded Out
New paper finds that increases in the proportion of out-of-state students at public research universities lead to declines in the enrollment of minority and low-income students.
Should AP Be Plan A?
A new study by a Stanford-affiliated researcher questions several assertions made by advocates for the Advanced Placement exam.
More Fudging of SAT Averages
York College of Pennsylvania is latest to admit that it wasn't submitting correct numbers. In this case, "special admits" were left out of the calculation.
'More Than a Major'
Survey of executives suggests that companies are more concerned with graduates' broad skills than their field of study.
Technically Liberal Arts
Georgia's private colleges ink deep transfer agreement with the state's technical colleges, and some waive general education requirements for transfer students.
Attracting the Missing Students
Study suggests that there's a way for top colleges to attract and enroll more low-income, high-achieving applicants, and that the methods to do so are inexpensive. So why isn't this strategy being used?