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Why Legacy Admissions May Be on the Way Out

ED Surge

The civil rights folks liked the idea that legacy preferences were there to the extent that they could make an argument that, ‘Listen, there are all sorts of preferences in college admissions,’ and so race should be allowed as one of those factors.” But even that financial argument is not well-founded, argues Kahlenberg.

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How a Billionaire’s Fellowship Spread Skepticism About College’s Value

ED Surge

Gibson had little experience in finance. And we didn't even talk finance. But he comes across as the embodiment of soulless financing. And he argues that there’s a danger in Thiel’s argument. “I His major had been philosophy, and he had nearly completed a Ph.D. in it at Oxford University. Millions of students in the U.S.

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What a New Strategy at 2U Means for the Future of Online Higher Education

ED Surge

These companies, which help colleges set up online programs and often help finance them as well in exchange for a cut of revenues, have lately seen a barrage of bad news. The argument is that it is easier for 2U to market lower-tuition programs, and that it is the right thing to do.

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Is a College Degree the Worst Investment You Can Make — or the Best?

ED Surge

And the argument is that if a university degree is a good investment, it ought to be substantially more valuable than the opportunity cost. My argument is that the risk is too high, and the returns too low. And that’s worse than the humanities, English and finance degrees in the U.K. There are two key weaknesses to our argument.

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The Risks of Omicron Mean Starting the Semester Online Was the Right Move

ED Surge

Furthermore, in updated research my team will present at the Association for Education Finance and Policy national conference, the effects of state sociopolitical features were twice as strong in affecting in-person instruction for spring 2021. In both studies, COVID-related factors have played second fiddle to political-related factors.

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Prosecuting rap: can we get racial discrimination out of the courtroom?

Futurum

DEFENCE – (in court) the argument that the accused person should not be found guilty. DEFENCE – (in court) the argument that the accused person should not be found guilty. Many law graduates go on to work in other sectors, including business and finance, politics and international development.

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Can AI Solve Science?

Stephen Wolfram

of what’s now Wolfram Language —we were trying to develop algorithms to compute hundreds of mathematical special functions over very broad ranges of arguments. Back in 1987—as part of building Version 1.0 In the past, people had painstakingly computed series approximations for specific cases.

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