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Georgetown Center on Education and Workforce’s soothing self-talk provides a false sense of understanding of the complex process of employer hiring.

Journalist and author Paul Tough tells us about what’s driving rising tuition fees, lower enrollment, and the myth of college as an equalizer in the US.

Articles you may have missed over the long Labor Day weekend. Did you know that 37 percent of the Harvard Class of 2025 attended private schools or that the figure at Princeton was 40 percent, at Brown, 41 percent, and at Dartmouth, 44 percent? Note: Those figures don’t include the 10 to 30 percent of Ivy Leaguers who are international students, many of whom also attended pricey private schools.

For most people, the new economics of higher ed make going to college a risky bet.

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Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN

Family income is a predictor of essay quality, says the study. But admissions officers can tell when an essay has been ghost written by a high-priced consultant.

NationofChange A spinoff of a forthcoming book from Johns Hopkins Press about the value of the liberal arts. Last month, many disappointed applicants to the University of California received rejection letters, thousands of them, with 250,000 competing for 46,000 spots. Mary McNamara, writing in the  Los Angeles Times, voiced the dismay of parents whose qualified kids got turned down, pointing out that she and other Californians pay hefty state taxes. (4/14/21). But disgruntl...

May 13, 2021, 3:00 p.m. ET Credit...Chris Gash By Stephen Adair and Colena Sesanker Dr. Adair is a sociology professor at Central Connecticut State University. Dr. Sesanker teaches philosophy at Gateway Community College in New Haven, Conn. The last 40 years have seen an ever-widening income gap between those with college degrees and those without. Over that interval, incomes have soared for those with advanced degrees and declined for those with high-school diplomas or less. As a result, the r...

How College Admissions Have Changed During Covid Share to Facebook getty Harvard admitted 3.4% of its undergraduate applicants this year. Yale, 4.6%. Columbia just 3.7%. Last night at 7 p.m. on the east coast, the eight colleges that make up the Ivy League let applicants know whether they were accepted or rejected. After the pandemic forced most schools to adopt test-optional admission policies, applications soared at the nation’s most selective schools. Some 57,435 students applied to Harvar...