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For decades, economists could rely on a comforting graph about happiness over a lifetime: It followed a U-shape, like a smile. Young people were carefree and happy. Middle age was rough but joy returned again in old age. This wasn’t…
What a pre-college program offers your child, if you can afford it.
Higher ed researcher James Murphy on how the 2023 Supreme Court ruling has affected college demographics.
An admissions expert at CollegeAdvisor answers a parent’s burning question.
Lynette Duncan didn’t expect to spend 20 hours over the past two weeks digging through a mothballed computer system, trying to retrieve admissions data from 2019. Duncan is the director of institutional research at John Brown University, a small Christian…
College enrollment in the U.S. continued to rise last fall, surpassing prepandemic levels, new figures out on Thursday show. Across undergraduate and graduate programs, total enrollment reached 19.4 million students, growing 1.0% compared with the fall of 2024, according to…
Spelman Chief Enrollment Officer Ingrid Hayes on the importance of having a supportive and affirming campus.
5 tips to develop rapport and be prepared for a conversation on school and life.
The risks of using generative artificial intelligence to educate children and teens currently overshadow the benefits, according to a new study by the Brookings Institution’s Center for Universal Education. The sweeping study includes focus groups and interviews with K-12 students,…
View the full episode transcript. In 2030 all high schoolers in California will be required to have taken a course in personal finance or financial literacy before they graduate high school. And across the U.S., about two thirds of states…