Tag: higher education
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Test-optional admissions made elite schools whiter and richer
Test-optional policies were sold as equity wins, but the data shows elite admissions tilted further toward wealthy applicants who could game the new criteria.
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Student loan forgiveness debates ignore the graduate-degree problem
The student debt crisis is overwhelmingly a graduate-school crisis. Forgiveness debates that ignore that fact end up subsidizing the wrong borrowers.
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The humanities aren’t dying — they’re being killed by administrators
Humanities departments are being closed not because students don’t want them, but because administrators have made strategic decisions to redirect resources.
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College is a bad financial decision for most students who attend
The average return on a college degree is positive, but the median is misleading. For many specific students, the financial math doesn’t actually work out.