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Friday, February 4, 2011

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1. Plea to Expand Enrollment at Top Colleges, by Jacques Steinberg- http://nyti.ms/dOMLs9

‎"Twenty of the wealthiest, most selective private colleges enroll a total of about 20,000 first-year students each year. If they enrolled 30,000, there would be a significant reduction in the number of rejection letters sent to highly qualified students."

2. Ready for the Transfer Wave? by Marc Cutright - Inside Higher Ed: http://bit.ly/hrOgya

"These new community college students, however, still intend to get the bachelor’s degree, even if there’s an unanticipated detour on the route. So it is likely that we’ll see even stronger growth in demand for transfer credit acceptance. The issue is that students entering higher education through community colleges generally have not been as successful at getting four-year degrees."

3. College Affordability A Top Priority, New Study Shows - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/03/college-affordability-a-t_n_818273.html

"Reducing college costs -- which was picked as the best means of helping Americans with financial woes by 63 percent of the nationally representative 1,004 Americans surveyed -- beat out social security (58 percent) and cutting taxes (48 percent) as well as "reducing the deficit" (40 percent), "providing financial help to people whose owe more on their mortgage than their house is worth" (22 percent) and others. . . ."

4. Study Finds Social-Skills Teaching Boosts Academics, by Sarah D. Sparks - http://t.co/ZtGPwvp via @educationweek

"In the report published today in the peer-reviewed journal Child Development, researchers led by Joseph A. Durlak, a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Chicago, found that students who took part in social and emotional learning, or SEL, programs improved in grades and standardized-test scores by 11 percentile points compared with nonparticipating students."

5. For-Profit Colleges and Foes Await U.S. Rules, by Tamar Lewin - http://nyti.ms/i97XKt

“The for-profits want to underscore the importance of the needy population they serve. Critics want to undermine the sector. It’s very hard to separate fact from fiction, given all that’s taken place.”

6. Loan-Default Percentage at For-Profit Colleges Would Double Under New Formula, by Goldie Blumenstyk - http://chronicle.com/article/Loan-Default-Rate-at/126250/

"According to the department's figures, of the nearly 3.4 million students entering repayment status in 2008, 466,000 would be considered in default under the three-year measurement, while just under 239,000 were in default under the two-year calculation. About 222,000 of the defaulters in the three-year calculation attended for-profit colleges, 186,000 attended public colleges, and about 58,000 attended private nonprofit colleges."

7. Teens Answer: Why I Had a Baby, by Belinda Luscombe - http://t.co/9sIx0bg via @TIMEHealthland

"It is real hard being a single mother. I'm no longer with their father. Teenage males aren't looking for responsibilities at a young age. My mother and sister were also teenage mothers. It's hard for me to get a job, so now I'm being supported by my mother. . . . If I had a chance to wait 'til I was stable I would take it."

8. Default rate for repayment of for-profit college loans hits 25 percent, by Nick Anderson - http://t.co/waGrtOW via @washingtonpost

‎"The 25% default rate in the for-profit sector, part of an Education Department report to be published Friday, was up from a 21% rate estimated in December 2009. Loan defaults are on the rise throughout higher ed because of economic troubles. The three-year default rate for public colleges is now about 11%, up from about 10% in the previous report. The rate for private nonprofit colleges is about 8%, up from about 7%."

9. BBC News - Rich-poor pupil gap 'not closing,' by Sean Coughlan: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-12344501

"But this study from the University of Manchester says schools alone are not going to be able to bridge this divide. It says that previous attempts to narrow the gap have not made "substantial sustained improvements". The review, published by the British Educational Research Association, says schools can make a big difference to some individual pupils - and individual schools in disadvantaged areas can have high results.
But overall it suggests that schools have struggled to break the stubborn link between a poor background and low academic achievement."

10. 13 reasons I applied to 13 colleges, by Mackenzie Mennucci - http://t.co/gqnbjJj

"On that sunny September afternoon, somehow I came to the conclusion that it would be a bloody brilliant idea to apply to 13 colleges. I’m still trying to figure out why."

11. 6 Steps to Beating the Shortage of Financial Aid, by Kim Clark - US News and World Report: http://t.co/2NYtoq1

‎"Although nearly every college student wants a scholarship to help pay tuition, only about 50 percent of college students are expected to receive free money in 2011 and 2012. And the shortage of scholarships is expected to be especially severe in 2011 and 2012. But financial aid experts say there are six steps students can take right now to improve their odds of being in the lucky 50 percent:"

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