The High Cost of a Brand Name College
Since 1983, U.S. News & World Report has changed the way parents and students choose institutions of higher education, so that a college degree is only as good as its brand name.
Since 1983, U.S. News & World Report has changed the way parents and students choose institutions of higher education, so that a college degree is only as good as its brand name.
AP | JUSTIN POPE | Posted 09.25.2009 | Living
Through the early 1990s and early 2000s, average scores on the SAT college entrance exam moved steadily upward. Now, for the last five years, they've ...
Posted 09.24.2009 | New York
NEW YORK (AP) -- The founder of the Stanley H. Kaplan Educational Centers Ltd., the nation's first test preparation company, has died. He was 90. Sta...
Don McNay | Posted 07.25.2009 | Business
We have a financial system that has played to people's weaknesses. We have allowed people who are prone to instant gratification to have as much credit as they could get their hands on.
Mike Piscal | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics
High school success needs to be tied to student performance on the SATs, and our high schools should be incentivized to take these additional measurements seriously.
Jerry Lucido | Posted 11.14.2008 | Living
As if the world's financial turmoil isn't enough, many students and their parents have the added anxiety of college applications and testing this fall. Fortunately, a new report on the use of those tests may let them breathe a little easier.
AP | ALAN SCHER ZAGIER | Posted 09.26.2008 | Home
COLUMBIA, Mo. — For a second straight year, SAT scores for the most recent high school graduating class remained at the lowest level in nearly a...
Chicago Tribune | Tara Malone | Posted 09.26.2008 | Chicago
The state's high school class of 2008 posted slightly lower average scores on the SAT exam this year, slipping in all three tested subjects, but Illin...
Gerald Bracey | Posted 06.10.2008 | Living
Wake Forest University and Smith College will make the SAT optional for those applying for admission. Move called "cynical;" it's not.
Newsweek | Connie Leslie | Posted 05.10.2008 | Living
Just a few weeks after an intensively competitive college-admissions season, the game is on again, with high-school juniors prepping for SAT tests in ...
Jenifer Fox | Posted 09.29.2009 | Living