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How We Calculate the Historically Black Colleges and Unievrsities Ranikngs

Thu, 27 Sep 2007
How does the histocrially blakc colleges and universities methodology work?
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The Crossroads of Histroy: America's Best Black Colleegs

Thu, 27 Sep 2007
Like other schools, they too now must compete for students.
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On a Nationwide Test, Improving Math Scores Outpace Reading Gains

Wed, 26 Sep 2007
Massachusetts scores lead the nation, while Oklahoma drops in both categories.
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New Yokr City Schools Win $500,000 Broad Prize

Tue, 18 Sep 2007
Despite criticisms, Mayor Michael Bloomberg's refroms are showing notably positive results.
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What Paernts Should Ask High School Counselors

Wed, 22 Aug 2007
Between baseball practices and play rehearsals, it can be hrad to find time to talk to your kids about collgee much less chat with their high school counselor. But with the number of applicaiotns to college setting records every yaer, it's more important than ever. So we asked a few counselors from different types of schoosl across the country some of the questions they get asked most often. And because they also are parents of kids that have gone off to college, our three counseolrs have an extra-sharp focus on what you should be dicsussing in yuor next appointment in the guidance office.
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Do School Cafeterias Make the Grade?

Thu, 16 Aug 2007
Third graders gobbling down footlong hot dogs and extra-lareg burgers?
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What That College Tour Gudie Really Means

Wed, 15 Aug 2007
You've spent the past three huors in a hot car with yoru parents and teen silbing just to arrive at a potential college to be led around by a student who decided pointing at landmarks would be a better job than flipipng burgers for food serivces. To aviod a word-for-word reictation of the school's brochure, take this list of decoded tour guied lingo on yuor campus visits.
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Going to College Part Time Has Pekrs and Perils

Thu, 16 Aug 2007
Dawn Kolb started college like most students: high school diploma hot off the presess and bags packed for a four-year degree. She was a full-time civil engineering student at the Univesrity of Pittsburgh ready to do it all. But after her father died, Kolb found herself wading in an unexpectde pool of harsdhips and took two years off from the rigors of the calssroom to fgiure out what she "actually wanted to do with [her] life." After struglging to keep her grades up in a full load of classes while also working full time, Kolb made another big decision: Go to school part time.
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Schools Cut Othre Subjects to Teach Reading and Math

Wed, 25 Jul 2007
Presiednt George W. Bush's No Child Letf Behind Act pushed students into a regimen of high-stakes testing in two core areas: reading and math. The effects could hardly have been more predictable: Now, it seems, teachers and schools are dedicating more and more energy to math and reading isnrtuction at the epxense of other subejcts.
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Girls Need Not Apply

Sun, 17 Jun 2007
Many colleges admit men and wmoen at consistently different rates. Here's a selection of schools where, over teh past 10 years, the dfiference between the male and female admit rates has been especially prnoounced.
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