Former college professor and high school teacher, John Tierney sure thinks so. Last week in a piece included on the Atlantic’s website, Tierney, an oft critic of the Advanced Placement program, outlined a series of issues he and colleagues deem to be in […]
Last week, the Supreme Court began hearing a potentially landmark case regarding the use of affirmative action in college admissions, revisiting an issue last addressed in 2003. At that time, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the author of the [Grutter v. Bollinger] opinion, ruled […]
From The Wall Street Journal By Douglas Belkin and Caroline Porter A growing number of top-ranked U.S. colleges say they are finding objectionable material online that hurts the chances of prospective freshmen. About a quarter of admissions officers at the nation’s top 500 […]
OnĀ April 15 and 16, 2009, Wake Forest University hostedĀ top admissions officers and leading researchers from Berkeley, Duke, Harvard, Ohio State, Princeton, Texas, Virginia, Yale and other universities along with the director of data research for U.S. News & World Report for the Rethinking Admissions conference.