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Higher ed may be a bastion of learning, but it still has a few lessons of its own to figure out. It appears Efficiency 101 and Intro to Accountability aren’t required classes when it...
Higher ed may be a bastion of learning, but it still has a few lessons of its own to figure out. It appears Efficiency 101 and Intro to Accountability aren’t required classes when it...
For way too many college students, their diploma could be a “ticket to nowhere.” At Vanderbilt University, a course called “Country Music” can serve as the only collegiate history course a student takes. At...
Many college students today can easily skip the kind of classes that can truly make them stretch and think and give them a broad base of knowledge that will help them succeed in the...
Oklahoma colleges and universities scored well on a national report that evaluates the required general education curriculum of more than 1,000 schools. Schools were graded based on how many core subjects they require. The...
An analysis of core education requirements at 1,007 colleges found that three-fifths of those schools require three or fewer of seven basic subjects, such as science, math and foreign language. This is the third...
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