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MAKING THE GRADE By Beckie Supiano We asked professors, students, and high-school counselors. ADVERTISEMENT BACKGROUNDER The Grade Inflation Conversation We’re Not Having By Jeff Denning, Eric Eide, Kevin Mumford, Rich Patterson, and Merrill Warnick GPAs are going up, but colleges aren’t talking about it. ANOTHER CLOSURE ‘We Just Couldn’t Continue’: A President Explains Why His College Had to Close By David Jesse Goddard College’s leader told The Chronicle that demographic forces were too much for the institution, which had tried many things to limit expenses and expand revenue.
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COLLEGE ADMISSIONS Following Yale and Brown, Harvard Returns to Requiring Standardized Tests By Francie Diep The university makes similar arguments as its peers about how standardized-test requirements help disadvantaged applicants. THE EDGE 18,000 More Low-Income Students By Goldie Blumenstyk Eight years on, the American Talent Initiative is “back on the growth trend,” but lags far behind its goal.
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