Graduation rates for low-achieving minority students and girls have fallen nearly 20 percentage points since California implemented a law requiring high school students to pass exit exams in order to graduate, according to ...
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Apr 22, 2009
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Americans are getting married at ever-older ages, and a new report says this trend may be partly responsible for the shrinking of the middle class.
Social Sciences
Mar 15, 2013
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A larger proportion of immigrant black high school graduates attend selective colleges and universities than both native black and white students in America, according to a study by sociologists at Johns Hopkins University ...
Social Sciences
Aug 11, 2009
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A new study conducted by Montana State University professors shows that students who graduate from high school in states that make financial education a graduation requirement make better decisions about how to pay for college.
Social Sciences
Mar 8, 2019
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Scores on the ACT college admissions test by this year's high school graduates hit their lowest point in more than 30 years—the latest evidence of the enormity of learning disruption during the pandemic.
Education
Oct 12, 2022
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With 10,000,000 Americans filing unemployment claims and the coronavirus outbreak forcing longer stay-at-home orders, college graduates have more to worry about than missing their commencement ceremonies. Younger students ...
Economics & Business
Apr 7, 2020
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The latest scores from the ACT college entrance exam suggest many of this year's high school graduates aren't ready for college-level course work.
Social Sciences
Aug 24, 2016
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Even though women in high school and college tend to outperform men academically, they still internalize the stereotype that brilliance is more linked to men. This belief affects their choice of major and perpetuates gender ...
Social Sciences
Sep 21, 2023
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It's time for the United States to consider establishing higher standards for math teachers if the nation is going to break its "vicious cycle" of mediocrity, a Michigan State University education scholar argues in Science ...
Social Sciences
Jun 9, 2011
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Fourteen high school graduates streamed into a large lecture room at Hofstra University, each carrying a sign with the name of the college they will attend: Stony Brook University, The New York Institute of Technology, Columbia ...
Education
Aug 15, 2019
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