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Counting your way to a college A

The Hechinger Report

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. No one is asking these students to take additional, outside assessments to measure their learning gains. million points.

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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. Fewer college students are majoring in liberal arts subjects like philosophy or English and political science, like you did, Jon. Kirk: Epstein is dean of the faculty at the small liberal arts college. Archivist: Great.