#Higher education’s perfect storm is becoming a tsunami

#Higher education’s perfect storm is becoming a tsunami

The war between Israel and Hamas has divided college campuses like no other issue in recent memory. Student walk-outs, vigils and protests, along with sharp increases in antisemitism and Islamophobia, have left many students feeling unsafe, have outraged parents and have prompted harsh public criticism of what many see as tepid responses from university leaders….

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#’She went to f–king jail, man’

#’She went to f–king jail, man’

“‘She went to f–king jail, man’” John Stamos minimized the role his “Full House” co-star, Lori Loughlin, played in the massive college admissions scandal in a new podcast interview. “I am going to say this, and she said I could. She wasn’t really the architect of any of it — she was in the way…

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#Why all students should take the SAT

#Why all students should take the SAT

“Why all students should take the SAT” It was less than five years ago that I spent a beautiful August afternoon in a poorly ventilated gymnasium full of hundreds of sweaty, nervous teenagers penciling in bubbles for the SAT. But, as much as I hated taking that test, I hate the idea of doing away…

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#First generation Florida teen gets into every Ivy League college

#First generation Florida teen gets into every Ivy League college

“First generation Florida teen gets into every Ivy League college” A Florida teenager, who is a first-generation Nigerian-American, has quite the variety of Ivy League schools to choose from — every one of them. Ashley Adirika, a debate champ who hopes to help alleviate income inequality, got into Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton…

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#NYC private schools offer a rarefied environment for learning

    #NYC private schools offer a rarefied environment for learning

    “#NYC private schools offer a rarefied environment for learning” Many parents see New York City’s private schools as the finest institutions for a quality education. And this assumption is for good reason: Many graduates of these schools go on to achieve prestigious and lucrative careers, after gaining admission to some of the top universities in…

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