“Families think their sons and daughters are awarded a merit scholarship because of the fact that they are wonderfully smart and talented,” says Robert Massa, a vice president at Lafayette. “[T]he primary reason for awarding a non-need-based merit scholarship is to change a student’s enrollment decision from another institution to our institution. That’s why colleges do it.”
How Colleges Fight For Top Students
How Colleges Fight For Top Students
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Physicists Seek To Lose The Lecture As Teaching Tool
January 2, 2012 By
The lecture is one of the oldest forms of education there is.
“Before printing someone would read the books to everybody who would copy them down,” says Joe Redish, a physics professor at the University of Maryland.
But lecturing has never been an effective teaching technique and now that information is everywhere, some say its a waste of time. Indeed, physicists have the data to prove it.
Physicists Seek To Lose The Lecture As Teaching Tool
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Hard Times Inspire Berea College Students To Action
November 30, 2011 By
This school was started six years before the Civil War. It was to be both integrated and coeducational. And the poor students became part of the mission. The small college town, Berea, is right at the edge of the Bluegrass region. Theres a rise of mountains to the east. Its where Appalachia begins.
By 1931, University of Chicago President Robert Hutchins was able to say Berea was in a “different class.”
“It does what no other college can do; what it does must be done,” he said.This year, the Washington Monthly ranking of 100 liberal arts colleges has Berea at No. 1.
via Hard Times Inspire Ky. College Students To Action : NPR.
How Has Student Loan Debt Shaped Your Life?
October 31, 2011 By
Total student loan debt in the U.S. will cross the 1 trillion dollar threshold in 2011, an amount that surpasses the nation’s combined credit card debt. It affects how many students and graduates decide whether and where to go to school, what job to take, where to live and how to pay their bills. How Has Student Loan Debt Shaped Your Life?
College students fret that few jobs await them
September 17, 2011 By
All the ideas for getting jobs going again in this country, no matter where they come from, are crucial to one group that barely even knows what a healthy labor market looks like: Young people.
So that’s where we’ll start today on The Breakdown, our economy, one step at a time: The future. The unemployment rate among 20-to-24-year-olds is nearly 15 percent. Kids come out of college today, start looking for a job, and if they can find one, it’s just plain lousy.
College students fret that few jobs await them
September 10, 2011 By
All the ideas for getting jobs going again in this country, no matter where they come from, are crucial to one group that barely even knows what a healthy labor market looks like: Young people.
So thats where well start today on The Breakdown, our economy, one step at a time: The future. The unemployment rate among 20-to-24-year-olds is nearly 15 percent. Kids come out of college today, start looking for a job, and if they can find one, its just plain lousy.
We sent Marketplaces Mitchell Hartman out to Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Ore.
Tea Partiers Call For Pell Grants Cuts
July 30, 2011 By
Robert Siegel talks with Jeff Selingo, editor of the Chronicle of Higher Education, about why the federal Pell Grant program, aimed at helping students pay for college, has become a hot-button issue in the debt ceiling debate.
What The ‘New Normal’ Means For Americans
July 12, 2011 By
The sluggish U.S. economy disappointed most forecasters, not to mention job seekers, in the first half of this year.
It grew at an annual rate of just under 2 percent, which is below the average for the last half-century when the U.S. economy grew about 3 percent each year.
And although it may not seem like much, that 1 percentage point makes a big difference — influential analysts are saying we’re in for a “new normal.”
Thinking Thoughts No One Has Thunk
July 6, 2011 By
Charles Darwin did this, slowly and painfully, and so can you.
Every day we walk through the world. We look around. We think we see what’s going on, but it is hard to remember how routinized we are as we look, how we automatically see things from our accustomed angle, never thinking of alternate possibilities.
What Exactly Can You Learn on a Mobile Phone?
June 27, 2011 By
In my quest to understand how a mobile phone can be considered a learning tool, and whether it can actually help bridge the digital divide between low-income, at-risk kids and those with access to computers, I had an illuminating conversation with Mimi Ito, a cultural anthropologist who studies new media use in young people. Ito is co-author of Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media, and has been studying the subject of how kids interact with mobile
