by Laura Perna & Patricia Steele — 2011
This article uses data from descriptive case studies of 15 high schools in five states to explore students’ perceptions and expectations of student financial aid and the contextual forces that influence these perceptions and expectations.
by Edward Taylor — 2000
This article uses critical race theory to examine the current anti-affirmative action political climate and critiques both the call for colorblindness and liberalism’s ineffective defense.
by Richard Rubinson & David Hurst — 1997
Research on national systems of education helps explain the U.S. pattern of schooling. Three interrelated factors continue to shape the present transformation of U.S. higher education: the centrality of status competition, the lack of centralized political authority over schooling, and the loose connection between education and the economy.
by Kevin Dougherty — 1997
The materials from The Condition of Education 1997 nicely document how American higher education is a mass enterprise on its way to being a universal one.
by David Baker & Thomas Smith — 1997
Discusses increased demand for higher education among high school students and the consequences of this trend: growth of two-year institutions, an increase in dropout or "stopout" rates among college students, and a probable increase in remedial courses in colleges.
by William Greiner — 1994
The author argues that universities are as well equipped as and more obligated than most other social institutions to listen to, understand, and respond to problems in American society. The author suggests that the great universities of the 21st century will be judged by their ability to help solve the most urgent social problems.
by Sheldon Hackney — 1994
This article discusses educational reform similar to Benjamin Franklin's original plan for the University of Pennsylvania.
by Rebecca Strauss — 1971
Nationwide comparatively little time is being devoted to anguishing over the philosophy of open admissions; attention, instead, is focused on its implementation and viability. Colleges and universities across the nation are sending investigators to see what is going on at CUNY. New York City may have more young people involved and the size of its educational arena may be larger, but no major city in the nation can remain untouched by either the issues or the proposed solutions which are lumped under the rubric of Open Admissions.
by Richard Olmsted — 1971
The proper goal of a university education is the subject of serious discussion in many circles today.
by Leslie Whitcraft — 1933
The purpose of this study is to determine the particular effects and influences of the College Entrance Board examinations in mathematics upon the teaching of secondary school mathematics.
by Richard Fossey — 2009
In Estate of Butler v. Maharishi University of Management, a federal court recognized a cause of action against a private university for negligent admission of a student after a student with a history of mental illness fatally stabbed a fellow student in the campus dining hall. As a matter of public policy, this was a bad decision. Colleges and universities cannot reasonably screen student applicants for evidence of their propensities for violence. If the Butler case signals a judicial trend, colleges and universities should press for legislation in all fifty states that bars lawsuits against higher education institutions for claims arising from their student admission decisions.
