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		<title>We&#8217;re Doing a Lousy Job of Getting Poor Kids to College</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2013/05/09/were-doing-a-lousy-job-of-getting-poor-kids-to-college/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 15:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kayla Webley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For low-income students in the United States, the college math is bleak: only one-third of kids from families at or below the poverty line attend college, and even fewer graduate. The Department of Education has committed to improving those numbers, but a new report casts serious doubt on the effectiveness of the government’s efforts. The federal government has four major college prep programs for disadvantaged students: Upward Bound, Talent Search, Upward Bound Math-Science and Student Support Services, collectively known as TRIO. In a policy brief published this week in the journal The Future of Children, researchers from Princeton University and the Brookings Institution synthesized evaluations of each program and found them all “ineffective,” with no impact on getting low-income students to and through college. One study cited in the report tracked a random group of 1,500 students assigned to participate Upward Bound and a randomly selected control group of 1,300 students over 13 years. When Mathematica Policy Research ended the study in 2004, they found Upward Bound had &#8220;no detectable effect&#8221; on whether students enrolled in college, the type of institution they applied to, or whether or not they applied for financial aid. &#8220;We should be able to detect some change if we look at the students and say, what would have happened had we not had the programs?&#8221; said Cecilia Elena Rouse, co-author of the policy brief and dean of Princeton&#8217;s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. (MORE: The Biggest Barrier to Elite Education Isn’t Affordability. It’s Accessibility) Rouse and co-author Ron Haskins, co-director of the Center on Children and Families at Brookings, suggest that only programs that have demonstrated positive results should retain funding, comparing it to ineffective medicine being pulled from the shelves. &#8220;If your doctor prescribes to you a medicine that&#8217;s supposed to help your headaches and you have just as many headaches, is that really the right drug to be taking?&#8221; Rouse said. “These programs should be held to the same standard. If there&#8217;s no change in outcome for students who completed the program, then<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=119967&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Rural W.Va., Schools Rethink Their Role</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2013/05/08/in-rural-w-va-schools-rethink-their-role/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 12:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(WAR, W.Va.) — When school started here in the fall, 1 out of 7 classrooms was without a teacher; leaders couldn&#8217;t recruit enough educators to this sparsely populated rural area at the southern tip of West Virginia. When officials turned on the mandatory security cameras at one elementary school, the rest of the building lost its Internet connection; the buildings weren&#8217;t wired for this century. And when parent-teacher conferences came around, fewer than half of the biological parents got invitations; the others were long gone, in jail or dead. This is the reality facing students in McDowell County, a place perpetually ranked among the worst in the state by almost every measure. Twelve people a month die from drug overdoses here, while more than 100 people are on a waiting list to talk to rehab counselors via Skype. Three-quarters of all students live in a home where parents can&#8217;t find work in this one-time coal hub that has slowed. The county leads the state in teenage pregnancies. With this as the backdrop, the West Virginia Board of Education on Wednesday was set to formally alter the scope of these schools. The state took over the schools more than a decade ago and its leaders no longer will limit their mission to the traditional school day. The officials are going to try to turn the schools into a base, not just for the students but for all of those who live around here in small towns with names such as Cucumber and Johnnycake, where storefronts are boarded up and homes abandoned. Adult literacy, drug rehabilitation programs and basic medical care all will take place under the roofs of these schools. And in many cases, they&#8217;re already under way even before the state approves the final deal that expands the schools&#8217; ambitions in exchange for some relaxed oversight. &#8220;In addition to reading, writing and arithmetic, we&#8217;re also acting as their parents,&#8221; principal Florisha Christian McGuire said as she walked through the halls in War&#8217;s Southside School. (MORE: Pre-Ordering School Lunches Steer Kids To<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=119624&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yes, Really: Private Colleges Offering More Financial Aid Than Ever</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2013/05/07/yes-really-private-colleges-offering-more-financial-aid-than-ever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 12:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kayla Webley</dc:creator>
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		<title>As College Applications Rise, So Does Indecision</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2013/05/01/as-college-applications-rise-so-does-indecision/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 09:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kayla Webley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to Decision Day, when high school seniors choose which college to attend and send in deposits to secure their place. It&#8217;s supposed to be the fun part — the reward for all those long nights spent writing papers, cramming for tests and putting the finishing touches on science projects. But with more students applying to a larger number of schools than ever before, the May 1 deadline to formally accept an offer of admission from just one of those colleges comes with its own set of anxieties. As top schools in the U.S. become more selective, prospective college students are casting an increasingly wider net — which is easier to do thanks to the Common Application, a standardized electronic form that’s accepted by more than 500 schools. &#8220;Those of us in this profession have seen an emerging trend of this generation of students being more interested in broadening their scope,&#8221; says David Hawkins, director of public policy and research at the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC). &#8220;The idea is to hedge your bets and get as many applications as you can out there to see where you get accepted.&#8221; (MORE: College Admissions: The Myth of Higher Selectivity) In 2000, just 9% of students applied to seven or more schools. In 2011, about one-third of all applicants did so, according to the NACAC’s 2012 annual report. And nearly 80% of students applied to more than three colleges or universities. The result is a record number of applications at many colleges and universities in the U.S. — and a fraught decision for students admitted to multiple schools. &#8220;Applying to more schools just makes everything worse,&#8221; says Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less and a psychology professor at Swarthmore College. &#8220;Assuming you apply to six schools and get into three, it&#8217;s a hard decision — you beat yourself up and you&#8217;re full of regret and doubt about whether you made the right choice. If you apply to 15 schools and get into eight, well,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=118660&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Minerva Aims to be an Online Ivy League University</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2013/04/23/minerva-aims-to-be-an-online-ivy-league-university/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Barshay / The Hechinger Report</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Online learning has been trumpeted by everyone from academics to politicians to venture capitalists as a way to improve access to education. But now a novel idea is emerging from a prominent group of digital education supporters: you can’t learn everything online. The Minerva Project is a first-of-its-kind hybrid of old and new in which there is no campus and students take all of their courses online, but live together in traditional college dorms. The idea comes from a former Internet executive who thinks social interaction is as important as the kind of customized learning that high-tech online classes promise. The school—named after the Roman goddess of wisdom—is still in its planning stages and isn’t scheduled to open until the fall of 2015. But it has already raised $25 million from investment firm Benchmark Capital, making it one of the best-funded higher education startups of its kind, and announced a yearly $500,000 award that aims to be a Nobel Prize for teaching. And some prominent academic names are on board. Former U.S. Treasury Secretary and Harvard president Larry Summers is on the advisory board, as is Bob Kerrey, a former Senator from Nebraska who was president of the New School in New York from 2001 to 2010. Stephen Kosslyn, the director of the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and a former dean and chair of the psychology department at Harvard, recently joined as the founding dean. In charge of it all is Ben Nelson, former CEO of the photo sharing and printing website Snapfish. He declares that Minerva will be “offering the best education possible,” comparable to Harvard’s but at half the cost. And he plans to make a profit. (MORE: Digital Public Library with Vast Archive Opens) Minerva students will rotate through six or so different countries during their four years of college, living in dormitories in places as far flung as Paris, Beijing and São Paulo, and moving every few months. Nelson says he wants to preserve college social life because it helps students grow<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=117766&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Much Will It Matter If Student Loan Interest Rates Double?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martha C. White</dc:creator>
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		<title>College Admissions: Ivy League Acceptance Rates Decline</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2013/04/02/ivy-league-schools-accepting-even-fewer-kids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 11:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kayla Webley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gaining entry into an Ivy League school is getting tougher every year. The prestigious group of eight colleges and universities recently made their admissions decisions, and all but one decreased their already low acceptance rates. Harvard University was the most selective of the bunch, accepting a record-low 5.8% of its 33,531 applicants. It was followed by Yale University, which admitted 6.72% of its record-high 29,610 applicants, and Columbia University, which dropped its acceptance rate from 7.4% last year to 6.89% this year. (MORE: The Upside of College Rejection: Your Safety School Might Be the Smarter Choice) A larger applicant pool helped fuel increased selectivity. Cornell University received a record 40,006 applications and accepted 15.2% of them — down from 16.2% last year. The University of Pennsylvania saw applications inch up from 31,218 to 31,280 this year, and admitted 12.1%. Brown University saw applications dip very slightly, but still accepted just 9.2% of applicants. Princeton University, which has seen a 93.5% increase in applications in the past nine years, accepted just 7.29% of this year’s 26,498 applicants. Princeton says its acceptance rate was down from 7.86% last year because it overenrolled the current freshman class by about 50 students and is compensating by accepting 18 fewer students each year for the next three years. Dartmouth College was the only member to increase its rate of admission, which rose slightly from 9.8% last year to 10.05%. Taken together, the Ivy League received 247,283 applications and admitted 23,010 prospective students, making for a collective acceptance rate of 9.3%. Even more selective than the Ivy schools was Stanford University, which has developed a reputation for minting technology entrepreneurs. The Palo Alto, Calif., university accepted a record-low 5.69% of its 38,828 applicants this year, down from a 6.6% admit rate last year. &#8220;We&#8217;re not doing that and then gloating,&#8221; says Richard Shaw, Stanford’s dean of undergraduate admissions and financial aid. &#8220;I&#8217;m disappointed by it. My message is, I&#8217;m really sorry to all those kids who are really amazing and we can&#8217;t accommodate.&#8221; Shaw says the primary<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=114042&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Majoring in Drones: Higher Ed Embraces Unmanned Aircraft</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2013/03/18/majoring-in-drones-higher-ed-embraces-unmanned-aircraft/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor Luckerson</dc:creator>
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		<title>Just How Bad Off Are Law School Graduates?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 11:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Cohen</dc:creator>
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		<title>Who Needs Philosophy? Colleges Defend the Humanities Despite High Costs, Dim Job Prospects</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 12:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Marcus / The Hechinger Report </dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oregon State University President Ed Ray flinched when a stranger confronted him to say his daughter had just graduated from the school with a degree in philosophy. “I thought, ‘Oh my God,’” says Ray, who expected he would have to fend off yet another diatribe about the questionable value, in a weak employment market, of majoring in philosophy and other humanities subjects. In fact, the man wanted to thank him, Ray says. His daughter, he said, had just gotten a good job as an ethicist at a hospital. Ray’s anxiety was understandable. As rising tuition and mounting student debt makes prospective income a bigger part of choosing a major, humanities disciplines such as philosophy and history are under attack in favor of such fields as engineering and business, which are more likely to lead to jobs and salaries that justify the cost of four-year college education. (MORE: College Costs: Would Tuition Discounts Get More Students to Major in Science) “Higher education has really pressed this idea that if you have a college education, you’ll make more,” says Ray, an economist by training. That’s true, he says, but the strategy of emphasizing the financial value of degrees has backfired on the academy. “Shame on us. It doesn’t take a genius to realize that the next step is, which major pays the most.” That question is currently on the minds of many high school seniors and their parents, as they await college admissions decisions and the students consider what classes to take. And it’s driving a debate over the very purpose of higher education—whether universities and colleges exist to teach people general knowledge, or to train them for specific jobs. This is no longer just an academic conversation. Only 8 percent of students now major in the humanities, according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, down from a peak of more than 17 percent in 1967. Worried that enrollment in these subjects will continue to slip, university officials say it could lead entire departments to disappear. And they contend that<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=110118&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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