New York Times:
Test preparation companies are now catering to a new demographic: youngsters who may well watch Big Bird and Elmo the morning of their exams.
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New York Times:
Test preparation companies are now catering to a new demographic: youngsters who may well watch Big Bird and Elmo the morning of their exams.
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CNN:
As high school seniors across the country are hard at work polishing their college applications, let's take a look at some of the stranger questions those wacky admissions officers have asked.
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Financial Times:
States have cut budgets in previous down-cycles – such as in 2001-02 – but the extent of the current measures is larger, as states both try to stem prison admissions and release inmates early. (Read More)
New York Times:
A case involving the admissions policy of a Jewish high school in London has potential repercussions for thousands of other parochial schools across Britain.
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The Economist:
Ministers want to make the great schools game harder to playFAKING divorce, claiming to live in a shop, passing off a grandparent’s house as one’s own: not more revelations of MPs’ accounting tricks, but tactics used by paren (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
Sure, bad debt is up, fewer patients are paying their co-pays and admissions of insured patients are down. But there’s a “silver lining on the recession cloud,” according to Trevor Fetter, the CEO of Tenet: Fewer hospital wor (Read More)
The Daily Swarm - Headlines:
Drowned in Sound:In perhaps the most of unlikely admissions, former Rage Against The Machine and Audioslave guitarist Tom Morello has revealed that he worked briefly as a stripper. The job, he says in a column on NME.c (Read More)
www.ft.com:
Appeals lodged by parents over admissions to infant classes have almost doubled in two years, suggesting that families are acting earlier to secure places at their preferred institutions. (Read More)
New York Times:
Why top flagships are raising tuition, enrolling better students and becoming more like privates. And why that may not be a good thing.
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New York Times:
The chancellor of the largest campus of the University of Illinois announced that he was resigning in the wake of an admissions scandal that also led the university’s president to resign.
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MSNBC:
Oct. 16: From the lingo to the test scores, a lot has changed in the ways to apply to college in the last few years and just wading through the application process seems like it requires a college degree. College admissions e (Read More)
New York Times:
Three blown fourth-quarter leads against Miami result in a dressing down by Coach Rex Ryan and admissions of a failure by the defense.
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New York Times:
Three blown fourth-quarter leads against Miami result in a dressing down by Coach Rex Ryan and admissions of a failure by the defense.
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NY Post:
ITHACA, N.Y. — An upstate New York college is paying some students not to go to school this year. After Ithaca College saw enrollment decline last year, it adjusted admissions policies and ended up exceeding its enrollment ta (Read More)
www.ft.com:
Frédéric Mitterrand , French culture minister was at the centre of a political storm yesterday over admissions that he paid for sex with "boys" in Thailand. The... (Read More)