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A liberal education group is using last week's Capitol riot to push reparations for black Americans.

Grades 6+ | 2 Monthly | Starts Jan. 14 & 21 | 6:30 – 8 | $10 a session Write an essay featuring YOU in this two workshop series. On the first day, students learn strategies for brainstorming essay topics, review the Common App, and start their first essay. At the second session, students receive feedback and coaching to finish, revise and polish their essay.

We’re living in an era of stand-taking. In times past, the world’s backdrop was grey; it was only you and I and those around us who gave it color. People had opinions, people had viewpoints. But companies, schools, institutions…they dryly performed their foundational functions. Contemporarily, a cookie ad champions social progress; the maker of your cellphone endorses a candidate; your child’s elementary school throws its hat squarely into the Idea Arena. Organizations feel a responsibi...

UCCS expected to see an increase in enrollment next fall Mayo Davison and last updated 2021-01-11 21:03:05-05 COLORADO SPRINGS — Spring semester is just getting underway, but students at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs already seeing an increase in prospective students for next fall. "That has a lot to do with being on the Common App for the first time which you usually get a bump for being on there for the first time. Weve also done a very good job over the past three years o...

A college admission application service told students that minority protesters are treated differently than white protesters due to systemic racism.

St. Louis Public Radio Jana Kelly poses in front of University City High School. Shes a senior at the high school, though shes hardly been inside since March. She had to navigate school and now college admissions virtually. Without extracurricular activities or standardized test scores, students with ambitious college plans are doing so without the resume they had hoped would win over admissions officers. This is not the year for the college road trip. Instead, it’s been all about clicking th...

  The initial early application deadline for campuses including the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Georgia Institute of Technology came and went yesterday, and hundreds of students missed it. Not because they were procrastinating (at least, not on Monday night), but because system-crashing technical glitches in the online Common Application continued to plague students (and their parents) who’ve been struggling to apply to college. The issues stem from a system relaunch that...

Paper checks for those who need them will start being sent out Wednesday, Mnuchin said. These payments — up to $600 for individuals, $1200 for married couples and up to $600 for each child — are the second wave of funds paid directly to Americans to help with the economic hit from the pandemic, CNBCs Amanda Macias reports. The House passed a bill to increase the direct payments to $2,000 for each individual, but the Senate has yet to take a vote on it. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell...

By Spencer Conlin Lake George PUBLISHED 5:23 PM ET Dec. 29, 2020 PUBLISHED 5:23 PM EST Dec. 29, 2020 SHARE It’s been almost a year since COVID-19 disrupted our normal routines. “I’m just happy to be in school, in person,” said Alice Fox, a senior at Lake George High School. After graduation, she plans on studying business. So visits to ...