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An Institute for Higher Education Policy brief finds that in the last 10 years, low-income students have increasingly been drawn to proprietary colleges and now attend at four times the rate of other students. Community colleges are the first choice for about half of postsecondary students at all income levels. (Education Week, premium article access [...]
A bill to allow concealed handguns on campus that was motoring through the Texas Legislature sputtered in the Senate last week, angering Texas College Republicans who made it their top legislative priority this session. In a press release, the TCR blamed state Sen. Steve Ogden, R-Bryan, for gumming up the works. Ogden is the only [...]
Is this entrance exam worth the Scantron it’s printed on? Two of the four main parts of the ACT – science and reading – are of “little to no” help for colleges choosing applicants, says a new study by the National Bureau of Economic Research. The study, Improving College Performance and Retention the Easy Way: [...]