Low Graduation Rates? Blame Admissions
‘Tis the season. High school graduation. It’s a wonderful time of the year. But it’s also a time of year when high school seniors–and maybe a few juniors–are waking up
June 4, 2009
‘Tis the season. High school graduation. It’s a wonderful time of the year. But it’s also a time of year when high school seniors–and maybe a few juniors–are waking up
Doug Lederer and the folks at Inside Higher Ed bring us a story today of Clemson University and how it manipulates data to help move itself up in the US
You must read this article by Neil Swidley in the Boston Globe. Mr. Swidley pulls together some great information that shatters the myth of the four year college degree. Fact:
Shopping For Colleges Is Like Shopping For Clothes: You Gotta Try Them On
I recently wrote a post blasting the idea of student-to-faculty ratios as a bogus measure of educational quality. It turns out that universities themselves don’t have a solid measure of
Today a reader wrote in to ask a question about comparing grading system between two different geometry classes in California. Picture this. Two geometry teachers in the same school. Each
Student-to-faculty ratios mislead. While they are oft-cited indicators of teaching quality, these ratios have no bearing on an individual student’s educational experience.
As an update to yesterday’s article in the New York Times about enrollment and yield trends this year at the most selective colleges, Scott Jaschick of Inside Higher Ed points
The Wall Street Journal came up with a neat trick: asking college presidents to write essays from the application to their own college. Tough assignment!. The results were reported the