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Counting your way to a college A

The Hechinger Report

Those results were published in the January, 2018, issue of Games and Culture. Inferring learning gains from their current coursework is complicated across subjects as varied as political science and computer programing. In another graduate seminar, Fishman assigns only one paper. million points.

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What do Philadelphia’s students want? More college counseling

The Hechinger Report

Nor did she understand how to identify schools that would allow her to major in zoology and prepare for her dream job as a veterinarian, but where she could also explore her interests in political science and film. Her mother, an immigrant from the Dominican Republic, had never been to college and didn’t know how to help.

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College Uncovered, Season 2, Episode 8

The Hechinger Report

Amherst enrolls about 1,900 students and offers more than 850 courses, many of them small seminars. Epstein gives me a sampling of some of the history department’s offerings, like ‘Birth of the Avant-Garde: Modern Poetry and Culture in France and Russia, 1870 to 1930.’ I study the stuff of culture and ideas and how those change.

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MIT, Yale and other elite colleges are finally reaching out to rural students

The Hechinger Report

It’s just not part of the culture.” Rural students often face cultural differences at universities that mostly enroll people from other backgrounds, said Corinne Smith, an associate director of admissions at Yale who reads the applications of many students from rural places. I hate that they didn’t see it before.”