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There were more Black students in the Stuyvesant Class of *1940* (at least 23) than in the class of 2016 (9). THREAD @MaraGay @elizashapiro @nhannahjones https://twitter.com/KristenClarkeJD/status/1107814236263202816 Here are the 2016

Now you can check the Pell Share at your alma mater, employer, current school, or pretty much any 4-year college that accepts federal financial aid. https://edreformnow.org/uncategorized/the-least-accessible-colleges-in-america/ https://twi

Here's the 20 worst 4-yr colleges in the country when it comes to enrolling low-income students. Source: IPEDS data released today Here's the 10 worst 4-year schools when it comes

The Washington Post published this shocking chart today. It's got everything to do with the future of community colleges in the US. Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/business/coronavirus-recession-equality/ Last week,

This California State Auditor report on UC admissions is kinda great. Come for the corruption, stay for the comics! https://www.auditor.ca.gov/pdfs/reports/2019-113.pdf What's the first rule of babysitter's club?!? Are college sport

THREAD: GOOD NEWS ABOUT HS COUNSELORSIn a really good thread about kids getting into college yesterday, @jselingo claimed the "typical counselor-to-student ratio is 1:464." HS counselors do amazing work and

This is a flawed story from the NYT because it makes a basic logical mistake: it does not distinguish between necessary and sufficient conditions.https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/14/opinion/politics/covid-school-reopening-guideli

428,620.That is the number of *just freshmen* who moved to another state to attend college in 2018.Why are we about to embark on a mass migration during a pandemic? Another

In 2018, 10,665 *freshmen* moved from another state to a Boston-area college. Should the 32 area colleges planning to bring students from out of state back to campus be allowed

CARES Act allocations by state. $460,193,896 going to for-profit colleges. (more later) The CARES Act allocates almost half a billion $$$ to for-profit colleges. For-profit & not for profit/public allocations