Highly rejective colleges and the problem with SAT: An interview with Akil Bello
Akil Bello has spent most of his adult life involved in testing students. He started as a tutor at The...
The Biden Administration has halted student loan applications
On Friday morning the federal student loan forgiveness website was replaced with a message explaining that the program is currently...
The American Bar Association will vote next week on whether to end the LSAT requirement
During the pandemic, many universities made the decision to stop requiring the SAT/ACT or any standardized test for admissions. It...
The state of the Youth Voting Rights Act
The results from yesterday’s election are still coming in and a lot of things are being tabulated, but it is...
Student Loan Forgiveness is still in limbo
On Thursday President Biden said that 16 million borrowers are already approved for forgiveness out of 26 million that have...
Affirmative action for college admissions could get axed by the Supreme Court
The US Supreme Court has taken up two cases against affirmative action in college admissions. Students for Fair Admissions, Inc....
Competency based education is having a moment
Competency based education (CBE), sometimes called outcome based education, has for years been a utopian ideal for technocratic reformers. The...
“Zoom seemed to bring more students into the conversation” and other pandemic insights from Stanford
Stanford just released a comprehensive educational report on the pandemic focusing on the “emergency remote teaching phase” which they identify...
A Federal court has temporarily blocked student loan forgiveness
The attacks on Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness plan were dealt back to back losses on Thursday when Supreme Court Justice...
Big Data and student performance: Insights from an LMS
In our recent story about Google buying BrightBytes, there was a lot of discussion about what kind of data is...