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All Hands on the FAFSA Deck
Colleges, government, high schools and community groups can find common purpose in encouraging FAFSA completion, Marvin Krislov writes.
Legacy’s ‘Last Stand’ in Connecticut
State lawmakers are considering a groundbreaking bill to ban legacy preferences at public and private colleges. Powerful institutions like Yale are fighting to stop it.
‘Another Unforced Error’ in the FAFSA Fiasco
The education department said calculation errors rendered hundreds of thousands of student aid forms unusable, setting time-strapped colleges back further.
High Schools Say They’re Falling Short on College Prep
Only 47 percent of public high schools say they’re doing a “very good” or “excellent” job preparing students for college...
How Perceptions of College Value Play Out on Social Media
A scan of 13,000 social media comments discussing the value of going to college shows that 93 percent of them...
Reinstating Tests Is a Step Back for Access
The reasons elite colleges give for reinstating their standardized test requirements don’t stand up to scrutiny, Audrey Fisch writes.
How a ‘Post-Generational Society’ Might Reshape Higher Ed: Key Podcast
Mauro Guillén discusses The Perennials and a world that blurs the boundaries between schooling and work across a (longer) lifetime.