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College Admissions

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College

COVID-19 Gutted College Attendance. Now, a Solid Labor Market Is Convincing More High School Grads To Skip It.

The number of high school seniors going on to attend college has plummeted in the past two years, deepening the already steady decline.

Emma Camp | 8.16.2022 12:32 PM

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College

American Council of Education Claims Ending Racial Preferences in College Admissions Would Chill Speech

Do First Amendment claims about racial preferences hold water?

Emma Camp | 8.3.2022 3:30 PM

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College Admissions

MIT Reinstates Standardized Testing Requirements for Admissions

Doing away with standardized testing doesn't help low-income applicants gain entry to elite colleges.

Emma Camp | 4.1.2022 11:30 AM

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Brickbat: Who's Your Daddy?

Charles Oliver | 3.17.2022 4:00 AM

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College Admissions

Lawsuit From Former Students Alleges Financial Aid Price Fixing at Elite Universities

Federal subsidies for higher education lead to market distortions that affect financially needy students.

Corey Walker | 1.12.2022 4:15 PM

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Education

Getting Rid of the SAT Won't Diversify Higher Ed. Expanding School Choice Will.

Giving kids more educational options would help produce the long-term change activists want.

John Stossel | 3.31.2021 4:17 AM

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Affirmative Action

Affirmative Action in College Admissions Will Be on California's Ballot in November

A November ballot initiative would pit minority communities against each other.

Scott Shackford | 9.18.2020 10:35 AM

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Sixth Amendment

Federal Prosecutors Are Punishing Actor Lori Loughlin for Exercising Her Right To Defend Herself

Plea deals aren’t about mercy these days. They’re about intimidating defendants into giving up the right to a trial.

Scott Shackford | 10.24.2019 3:30 PM

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College Admissions

Harvard Discriminates Against Asian-Americans, and 'Implicit' Bias Training Won't Fix That

Race-based admissions will likely make a return visit to the Supreme Court.

Robby Soave | 10.8.2019 3:35 PM

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College Debt

Democrats Love To Promise Free College, So Why Did the U.K. Recently Start Charging Tuition?

When Britain reversed its free college program and asked its citizens to foot a portion of their college bill, more working class people got degrees.

Oliver Wiseman | 8.22.2019 2:40 PM

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Cancel Culture

Harvard University Cancels Kyle Kashuv

A social media mob successfully persuades Harvard to rescind the admission of a conservative Parkland survivor.

Robby Soave | 6.17.2019 12:46 PM

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College Admissions

Make School Hard Again

Grade inflation needs to stop.

John V.C. Nye | 5.26.2019 6:00 AM

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College Admissions

Felicity Huffman, 13 Others Plead Guilty in College Admissions Scandal

"I want to apologize to the students who work hard every day to get into college."

Robby Soave | 4.8.2019 5:20 PM

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College Admissions

Universities Play the Victim in Admissions Scandal, but They're Far From Blameless

Higher education is a moral mess.

Jason Brennan and Phillip W. Magness | 3.14.2019 11:40 AM

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College Admissions

Time to Put the College Admissions System on a Rocket and Shoot It Into the Sun

Cheating scandal should have taxpayers asking whether it's right to subsidize the campus party lifestyles of celebrity scions who fake water polo careers.

Robby Soave | 3.13.2019 11:25 AM

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California

Californians Want to Make Community College Free

That's a terrible idea.

Marc Joffe | 12.26.2018 7:00 AM

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Michelle Obama Felt 'the Shadow of Affirmative Action' as Princeton Undergrad

Her experience is a good example of why affirmative action policies are a bad idea.

Joe Setyon | 11.13.2018 2:05 PM

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Discrimination

Let Competition, Not Law, Determine Who Gets Into Harvard

The most sensible and effective way to police private college admissions practices isn't litigation or regulation, but competition.

Ira Stoll | 10.22.2018 4:00 PM

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Education

College Isn't Higher Education and May No Longer Be the Best Way to Deliver the Goods

Many Americans are said to be turning against higher education. They may just be sick of an expensive and dysfunctional model that's outlived its usefulness.

J.D. Tuccille | 9.26.2017 12:01 AM

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Chicago

Chicago Schools to Students: Submit to Our Choices for Your Futures or No Diploma

Seniors must choose from a list of acceptable post-school plans, or they won't graduate.

Scott Shackford | 7.5.2017 12:20 PM

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College Admissions

Harvard's Asian-American Quota Turns Diversity on Its Head

College puts the brakes on rewarding the educational successes of a minority group.

Steve Chapman | 5.25.2015 12:01 AM

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Politics

Challenging Affirmative Action and Gerrymandering: AEI's Edward Blum

Pending court cases pertaining to race-based legislation.

Anthony Fisher | 5.7.2015 12:38 PM

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Policy

Rejected for Being Asian: Students Sue Harvard, UNC Over Race-Based Admissions

Robby Soave | 11.18.2014 1:41 PM

Politics

Obama's College Scorecard is a Giant Student Welfare Scheme

Shikha Dalmia | 5.30.2014 12:41 PM

Politics

Affirmative Action is a Lost Cause

But there are better ways for progressives to advance racial justice

Shikha Dalmia | 5.1.2014 8:30 AM

Politics

Shikha Dalmia on the Lost Cause of Affirmative Action

Reason Staff | 5.1.2014 8:30 AM

Politics

Progressives Need to Think About a Post-Affirmative Action World

Shikha Dalmia | 4.24.2014 9:40 AM

Supreme Court

Supreme Court Upholds Michigan Affirmative Action Ban

Proposal 2 was passed in 2006

Matthew Feeney | 4.22.2014 11:56 AM

Policy

Instapundit's Glenn Reynolds: Kids Are Getting Wise to Student Loan Debt

Alexis Garcia | 4.13.2014 9:30 AM

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Politics

Racial Preferences in Universities Won't Work in a Diverse America

They will also splinter the Democrats' minority base

Shikha Dalmia | 3.24.2014 11:00 AM

Politics

Shikha Dalmia on Asian American Hostility to College Affirmative Action

Reason Staff | 3.24.2014 11:00 AM

Politics

Affirmative Action and Diversity Don't Mix

Shikha Dalmia | 3.21.2014 12:46 PM

Economics

Number of Foreign Students Attending US Colleges Reaches All-Time High

More than 800,000 of them

Reason Staff | 11.11.2013 4:20 PM

Politics

Racial Preferences Could Backfire On Minorities

Why the Supreme Court shouldn't overturn Michigan's Prop 2

Shikha Dalmia | 10.15.2013 9:00 AM

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