Performance assessments also have the potential to transform higher education by working with other measures to provide a more holistic view of
applicants in college admissions, placement, and advising.
An essay is a decisive
tool in college admission, ensuring students to go beyond their academic records and become noticed by the committees.
Coordinated drop -
in college admissions sessions for high - achieving students looking for scholarships and grants to attend highly - ranked universities and colleges.
The Fall 2017 issue of Education Next includes an article by Ryan analyzing arguments made in court rulings on the use of
race in college admissions by the late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia.
Test Scores Do Not Equal Merit: Enhancing Equity & Excellence
in College Admissions By Deemphasizing SAT and ACT Results by Charles Rooney with Bob Schaeffer and the FairTest staff (FairTest, 1998: 77 pp.)
Highlights this fall include a conversation with Claude Steele, social psychologist, executive vice chancellor and provost for University of California, and author of Whistling Vivaldi, about how stereotypes can impact education; a discussion about the use of race
in college admissions with Economic Policy Institute Research Associate Richard Rothstein and Georgetown Law Professor Sheryll Cashin; and a forum about education leadership.
It was written by Richard Weissbourd in collaboration with Lloyd Thacker, Director of The Education Conservancy, and based on a meeting of college admissions deans and other
stakeholders in the college admissions process.
As test scores have played a more dominant role in education policy over the last decade (and have become more
important in college admissions), they have become increasingly salient to parents concerned with their children's education success.
«Higher education has a big challenge,» Taylor says, pointing to escalating tuitions and continuing exclusivity
in college admissions as impediments to students using higher education as an avenue from poverty to middle class.
«We wanted to level the playing field and give students a way to overcome some of the stigma around
scores in college admissions and high school,»» says David Blake, Zinch's finance director.
Thirteen years ago, the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute revealed that while «96 % of Latino parents want their children to attend college», few understood how to support their
children in the college admission process or how to access the financial aid opportunities that make that access affordable.
I didn't start teaching yoga because it was «different» and «gave me an edge»
in the college admissions sweepstakes; I did it because yoga has always made me feel perfectly content with my day or week regardless of what I have going on.
Thacker decries the changes he witnessed in the past 30
years in college admissions — more AP and honors classes, growing checklists of pro-forma service engagements, and ever - greater stress experienced by students and fomented by parents and admissions officers.
For example, laws permitting affirmative action for racial and ethnic
minorities in college admissions have been upheld because they affect a protected class and advance what legislators have deemed to be a compelling governmental interest.
C. L. Horn, S. M. Flores, «Percent
plans in college admissions: A comparative analysis of three states» experiences» (Harvard Civil Rights Project, Cambridge, MA, February 2003).
The study showed that prediction of student graduation may be significantly improved by
including in the college admission process consideration of AP exam performance and a small set of personality traits, along with traditional indicators of student abilities and high school grades.
But the headmistress of Lady Bird's Catholic school, Sister Sarah Joan (Lois Smith), thinks she knows better, telling our protagonist that it's obvious, from the way she writes about
Sacramento in her college admissions essays, that Lady Bird loves the city.
«Turing the Tide offers recommendations to tackle both of these issues simultaneously by promoting the quality of academic engagement over the quantity of
achievements in college admissions.»
The report represents the first time in history that colleges and universities across the country — including all the Ivy League schools — have banded together to make the collective statement that what matters
most in college admissions is not long «brag sheets» but concern for others and the common good and meaningful, spirited learning.
On October 10th, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case contesting the use of race
in college admissions brought by petitioner, Abigail Noel Fisher, against The University of Texas at Austin.
Florida was poised last week to join two other high - profile states in replacing race - based
criteria in college admissions with a system that promises students entry to public universities based on their class rank.
In 1959, a guidance counselor at the recently integrated Coolidge High School in the nation's capital advised a black student to lower his
sights in the college admissions process.
Diversity in Education:
Issues in the College Admission Process (University Herald, 10/31/16) Natasha Warikoo, author of The Diversity Bargain: And Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions, and Meritocracy at Elite Universities, examines the paradoxes of diversity in her book.