Day: February 27, 2013

Harvard’s Secret Diversity Plan for the Law School

The math is in. Harvard Law School confirmed today that although women are 51 percent of the nation’s population and 48 percent of the law school’s new students, only 20.4 percent of the school’s board of editors have been found to be female. Yielding to no one in the ceaseless quest to enhance its reproductive-organ […]

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A Bubble in College Dorms?

Though many commentators have expressed skepticism over the future of traditional higher-ed, at least one group anticipates a bright future: real-estate developers. The Wall Street Journal reports today that some of the largest developers in the United States are gobbling up land to make way for palatial student dorms. Why? As it turns out, student housing is basically recession-proof: […]

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The Market for College Grads Keeps Changing

Indebted college graduates have recently begun to ask whether a four-year college education is worth what it costs.  According to an article in the Wall Street Journal on February 11, for example, 23-year-old Bryce Harrison, who graduated last May from Goucher College with a political-science degree and about $100,000 in student loans to repay, is […]

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What Tests Predict, And What They Don’t

A new study of what high school achievement tests predict about the performance of California high school graduates in their first year at in-state community colleges has found “disturbing” achievement gaps. The study measured students’ performance on the California Standards Test as high school juniors against their first year community college performance in four areas: […]

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