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A Promise to Students: Improving How We Award Federal Student Aid
12Jun By EditorNo Comments
Graduate Admissions

A Promise to Students: Improving How We Award Federal Student Aid

A Promise to Students: Improving How We Award Federal Student AidAs the father of twins who recently graduated from college, I can appreciate what you or your parents go through each year as you fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, known as the FAFSA® form. As you know, completing this form can open the door to your higher education dreams by providing federal student grants, work-study funds, and loans. The FAFSA form can also unlock other opportunities for grants and scholarships from states, schools, and private organizations. Over the years, Federal Student Aid (FSA) has taken steps to make it easier for you to fill out the FAFSA form. For example, we’ve simplified the process so you only see questions that pertain to you, and we continue to partner with the Internal ...
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Two Black Students Won School Honors. Then Came the Calls for a Recount.
12Jun By EditorNo Comments
College Planning

Two Black Students Won School Honors. Then Came the Calls for a Recount.

Two Black Students Won School Honors. Then Came the Calls for a Recount.The parents of the just-named valedictorian and salutatorian left the ceremony, aware that Emma and her father were upset, but thinking nothing of it. Over the next day, however, the parents of Emma and Dominic did their own homework. “We found the 2020-2021 handbook,” Mr. Berry said. “It all came down to the handbook.” At issue was just how to calculate who the top two students were. Ikeria and Layla won based on a calculation of quality point average or Q.P.A., a system of calculating grades that gave extra weight to advanced placement and dual credit courses. But, it turned out, Dominic and Emma were the top two finishers based on unweighted grade point average. Join Michael Barbaro and “The Daily” team as t...
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First Amendment News 300: A Q&A interview with Laurence Tribe on freedom of expression 
11Jun By EditorNo Comments
College Planning

First Amendment News 300: A Q&A interview with Laurence Tribe on freedom of expression 

First Amendment News 300: A Q&A interview with Laurence Tribe on freedom of expression “Few if any (on the bench, in the profession, or in the academy) have contributed more to our understanding of the First Amendment than has Laurence Tribe. Through his unparalleled record of scholarship and advocacy, Professor Tribe has done much to secure broad judicial and legislative protections for the full range of First Amendment freedoms.” — Robert Corn-Revere* * * * Prof. Laurence Tribe To commemorate the 300th posting of First Amendment News, I invited Professor Laurence Tribe, the Carl M. Loeb University Professor and Professor of Constitutional Law (emeritus), to participate in a “Question and Answer” exchange. He kindly agreed.  While many in the legal community and related fields know of his...
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What Are The Best Colleges In The Country Looking For Today?
11Jun By EditorNo Comments
Graduate Admissions

What Are The Best Colleges In The Country Looking For Today?

What Are The Best Colleges In The Country Looking For Today? “You are more than your marks”- The best colleges in the world today. There’s a strong reason why the best colleges around the world are restructuring their admission processes around this very thought. In the early 2000s, scoring an 80+ in your boards would make you a celebrity around the local household. And with a score of 90+ news channels came to your house asking you about your preparation methods.  And not to forget a spot on the front page of the local newspapers reading, “Middle-Class Student Makes the State Proud”. Gradually, the status quo built around just a 90+ score in the boards lost its shine when students started averaging around 95 marks. So much so that now the only score that could make the ears flinch was ...
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11Jun By EditorNo Comments
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Ultimate Guide to College Grants and Scholarships for Minorities

Ultimate Guide to College Grants and Scholarships for MinoritiesScholarships and grants are a valuable tool for students who need funds to pay for college. These programs typically have criteria that consider your background and interests. One major category of gift awards is minority scholarships and grants. Minorities are groups that have historically faced societal disadvantages or challenges due to factors including: ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and disability. Students whose backgrounds qualify them for these awards can access financial assistance that they don’t need to pay back. Like all scholarships, minority scholarships will usually have additional merit or need based criteria for selection. Minority scholarships are offered by colleges, private organizations ...
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11Jun By EditorNo Comments
College Rankings

First Amendment News 300.1: Tribute to a great judge and a great man — Robert A. Katzmann (1953-2021)

First Amendment News 300.1: Tribute to a great judge and a great man — Robert A. Katzmann (1953-2021)We’ve lost Robert Katzmann (68), a great judge and scholar. . . but most of all Bob was a wonderful human being. Bob was the definition of a mensch. Anyone who knew him realized that Bob devoted his life to helping others, whether it be in working to improve the plight of immigrants or in investing in the future of some person with great promise but little clout. When you spoke to him he would constantly move the conversation away from himself and back to you, or to some terrible thing that happened and needed fixing. That his death took us all by surprise should not be surprising at all — he was humble to his end. In a world rife with vanity, his humility was exceptionable, especially give...
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11Jun By EditorNo Comments
Financial Aid

Dartmouth drops cheating charges against med students, apologizes for flawed investigation

Dartmouth drops cheating charges against med students, apologizes for flawed investigationDartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine announced that it has dropped all charges against more than a dozen medical students investigated for electronic cheating after they were accused of accessing online course material during remote exams. FIRE and the Electronic Frontier Foundation first alerted Dartmouth back in March that there was not enough evidence to charge the students. FIRE and EFF also raised concerns about student reports of serious due process violations.In an email last night, Geisel Dean Duane Compton said new information was obtained from its e-learning system, Canvas, and suggested the technical data that formed the basis of the charges was indeed insufficient. Compton apologized to t...
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Why Professors Should Ask Students For Feedback Long Before the Semester Is Over
11Jun By EditorNo Comments
College Rankings

Why Professors Should Ask Students For Feedback Long Before the Semester Is Over

Why Professors Should Ask Students For Feedback Long Before the Semester Is OverAbout a month into each semester, Gayle Golden sets aside a little time to ask her students about their learning. The journalism instructor at the University of Minnesota keeps the process simple, with brief questions similar to these: What should keep happening in this class? What should we start doing in this class? What should we stop doing in this class? Golden collects the results, which students give anonymously, then studies the feedback and makes a list of all the information she’s received. During the next class period, she discusses the findings with her students. She tells them which suggestions she plans to put into practice, which recommendations she can’t act on, and why. “If they told me somethin...
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Colorado Bans Legacy Admission
10Jun By EditorNo Comments
Online Colleges

Colorado Bans Legacy Admission

Colorado Bans Legacy Admission iStockLast month, Colorado became the first state in the nation to ban the consideration of a student’s legacy status in the admission process. The new law applies to Colorado’s public colleges and is aimed at reducing economic and racial disparities within higher education. “As a first-generation college student raised by a single mom, I can remember the anxiety I felt filling out the college application when they asked if I had family that had attended the institution,” Colorado state Rep. Kyle Mullica told CNN. “I remember wondering if I said ‘no’ if it would hurt my chance at getting in,” noted Mullica, one of the bill’s sponsors. “With House Bill 1173 we are making sure students get into school based on merit and their hard work, and not their family re...
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10Jun By EditorNo Comments
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Ultimate Guide to College Grants and Scholarships for Minorities

Ultimate Guide to College Grants and Scholarships for MinoritiesScholarships and grants are a valuable tool for students who need funds to pay for college. These programs typically have criteria that consider your background and interests. One major category of gift awards is minority scholarships and grants. Minorities are groups that have historically faced societal disadvantages or challenges due to factors including: ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and disability. Students whose backgrounds qualify them for these awards can access financial assistance that they don’t need to pay back. Like all scholarships, minority scholarships will usually have additional merit or need based criteria for selection. Minority scholarships are offered by colleges, private organizations ...
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Is the Charter Schools Program financing white-flight academies?
10Jun By EditorNo Comments
College Planning

Is the Charter Schools Program financing white-flight academies?

Is the Charter Schools Program financing white-flight academies?However, the privilege of segregation came with a cost — $5,000 a year in tuition that parents decided taxpayers should assume. As North Carolina teacher Justin Parmenter explains here, the academy’s parents created a Google site called “Let’s Charter Hobgood” to band together and convert the private academy to a charter school. In what looks like an attempt to allay any fears that the charter might be forced to integrate, the following was posted: “No current law forces any diversity whether it be by age, sex, race, creed.” After three attempts, parents pulled it off, and Hobgood Academy became a charter school. Published at Mon, 07 Jun 2021 17:38:52 +0000 Article source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/06/...
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9Jun By EditorNo Comments
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Ultimate Guide to College Grants and Scholarships for Minorities

Ultimate Guide to College Grants and Scholarships for MinoritiesScholarships and grants are a valuable tool for students who need funds to pay for college. These programs typically have criteria that consider your background and interests. One major category of gift awards is minority scholarships and grants. Minorities are groups that have historically faced societal disadvantages or challenges due to factors including: ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and disability. Students whose backgrounds qualify them for these awards can access financial assistance that they don’t need to pay back. Like all scholarships, minority scholarships will usually have additional merit or need based criteria for selection. Minority scholarships are offered by colleges, private organizations ...
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9Jun By EditorNo Comments
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A ‘magic’ school bus brings science class to schools in need

A ‘magic’ school bus brings science class to schools in need Get important education news and analysis delivered straight to your inbox Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today!  When science teacher Kathryn Spivey told her students at Benjamin Banneker Middle School in Burtonsville, Maryland that they were going to take off and visit planet Mars for a day on a Magic School Bus of their own, they didn’t know what to expect.   Unlike the one Ms. Frizzle’s science students ride in the animated series, the bus that showed up in their school parking lot this May was black, not yellow. But even though they ...
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9Jun By EditorNo Comments
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A ‘magic’ school bus brings science class to schools in need

A ‘magic’ school bus brings science class to schools in need Get important education news and analysis delivered straight to your inbox Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today!  When science teacher Kathryn Spivey told her students at Benjamin Banneker Middle School in Burtonsville, Maryland that they were going to take off and visit planet Mars for a day on a Magic School Bus of their own, they didn’t know what to expect.   Unlike the one Ms. Frizzle’s science students ride in the animated series, the bus that showed up in their school parking lot this May was black, not yellow. But even though they ...
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8Jun By EditorNo Comments
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Ultimate Guide to College Grants and Scholarships for Minorities

Ultimate Guide to College Grants and Scholarships for MinoritiesScholarships and grants are a valuable tool for students who need funds to pay for college. These programs typically have criteria that consider your background and interests. One major category of gift awards is minority scholarships and grants. Minorities are groups that have historically faced societal disadvantages or challenges due to factors including: ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and disability. Students whose backgrounds qualify them for these awards can access financial assistance that they don’t need to pay back. Like all scholarships, minority scholarships will usually have additional merit or need based criteria for selection. Minority scholarships are offered by colleges, private organizations ...
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