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What Will They Learn?
When parents plunk down $20, $30, $40 and maybe $50 thousand this fall for a year’s worth of college room, board and tuition, it might be relevant to ask: What will their children learn...
When parents plunk down $20, $30, $40 and maybe $50 thousand this fall for a year’s worth of college room, board and tuition, it might be relevant to ask: What will their children learn...
Over the five fiscal years ending in June 2008, state appropriations and tuition income per student at the University of Hawaii grew 32.1 percent, the highest percentage increase in the nation, a new report...
A few years ago, when I was grading papers for a graduate literature course, I became alarmed at the inability of my students to write a clean English sentence. They could manage for about...
FAYETTEVILLE—The University of Arkansas was in a sixway tie for 128th on U.S. News & World Report’s annual list of “best national universities” but fared better on an upstart rankings list that focuses on...
U.S. News & World Report may no longer be printing weekly magazines, but it still has at least one robust franchise keeping what’s left of the enterprise afloat: Yesterday the publication issued its annual...
Just in time for a new school year, another round of college rankings is out. The 2010 U.S. News & World Report rankings—the best-known in an increasingly crowded field—come out today, with Harvard and...
Brigham Young University climbed significantly in the U.S. News & World Report America’s Best Colleges rankings this year, tying with schools such as Virginia Tech, at No. 71 in the nation. The move indicates...
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