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Getting In Was Not the Hard Part

Why SAT scores still miss the point.

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The Way(s) Forward on Measuring Learning

Higher education must prove to the public that students are ready for work and life. Here’s how we might do that.

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Catching the Greased Pig

Readers respond on the “kinda, sorta” requirement.

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Follow the Money: Anti-Intellectualism in the U.S.

Over four decades, patents, tuition debt and corporate governance turned the American university into a market enterprise. Now the same forces that commercialized higher education use that very transformation to declare it unfit to govern itself.

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Opinion

A Kinda, Sorta Requirement

Students don’t do optional—but sometimes they also don’t do required.

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It’s Time to Talk About Employee Suicide

Colleges prepare extensively for student suicide, but faculty and staff facing their own crises are often on their own. That needs to change.

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Opinion

The Education Department’s Push for Accreditation Reform Could Backfire

An agency leader says the proposed rules could disrupt the balance of power and stifle innovation.