A report from U.S. News & World Report: Parents and students spend thousands of dollars on publications that are aimed at helping kids gain admission to the top colleges and universities in the country. Now, some of those parents and students are putting those dollars to use in an attempt to gain admission to the [...]

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A report from Examiner.com: DC can’t catch a break. Not only are residents barred from full Congressional representation, but DC students attending public schools are victims of an arbitrary policy that effectively limits them from fairly competing for one of the most prestigious scholarships in the county. By rolling commuter and boarding students into the pool [...]

A report from NOLA.com: Despite gains in student performance in many New Orleans schools, in two years most of the city’s public high school graduates might no longer qualify to attend any of Louisiana’s public universities immediately after graduation. The reason is more stringent college admissions requirements to be phased in over the next two years. [...]

A report from WXIA-TV: ATLANTA – Starting in Fall 2012, Georgia high school students will see their curriculum organized in a completely different way. The plan is called the Career Pathway Initiative, a new way of organizing high school courses to look more like college and give students an early start on a career path. The [...]

A report from Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette: URBANA — An administrator who was a bit player in the “Category I” scandal is now on leave after an apparent problem with reporting admissions data from the University of Illinois’ law school. Paul Pless, assistant dean for admissions in the law school, has not returned a call from The [...]

A report from The Valley Chronicle: San Jacinto Valley Academy may have a high school of only 110 students, but the sole counselor at the school, Kim Romeril, wants to ensure that 100 percent of those students are college bound. Romeril says the primary goal for the charter school of about 740 students is creating [...]

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A report from The Moral Liberal: School Days, EducationNews.org According to a new study by the College Board, the majority of students who just completed their freshman year of college feel that higher education is essential and worth the time and expense. But they do wish high school had prepared them better, writes Liz Dwyer [...]

A report from Chicago Tribune:Ariana Taylor thought she was ready for college after taking Advanced Placement physics and English at her Chicago public high school and graduating with a 3.2 GPA. Instead, at Illinois State University, she was overwhelmed by her course load and the demands of college. Her GPA freshman year dropped to 2.7 [...]