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Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites by Mitchell L Stevens

Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites Mitchell L Stevens ebook
Format: pdf
ISBN: 9780674044036
Page: 320
Publisher: Harvard University Press

The university plans to accept its first class in September of 2014 and is working to finalize its hybrid curriculum and online delivery mechanisms. A persistent question comes up: Is it worth it? Jan 8, 2008 - What I found was consistent with the American ideal of educational meritocracy. Crawford's Shop Class as Soulcraft observes that “smart” people were once socially permitted to do non-sedentary, nonprofessional jobs that wouldn't even involve a college education, to say nothing of an elite one. Oct 30, 2011 - Some of those friends from high school and college now have children themselves who are gearing up for the college-admissions process. He is the author of Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites (Harvard University Press, 2007). One start-up is tackling the notion of what an elite college education might look like. Jan 10, 2014 - But in most cases, high schools have a close eye on application requirements at universities and strive to produce “college ready” graduates, students who are equipped to make informed choices about the next phase of their lives and . €�One of America's greatest It was Thrun's decision — inspired by the math tutorials created by Salman Khan and his Khan Academy— to put his Stanford artificial intelligence course online that revealed the enormous audience for virtual college classrooms. Apr 25, 2011 - Elitism and Education (Part III): Working Class Whites and Elite College Admissions Had I known I “should” apply to an elite college and done so, I apparently would have looked incredibly uninteresting to those making admission decisions—even though I had held leadership posts and won awards in all of my school's organizations, participated in 4-H (a community activity, not a school one), and had a 4.0 GPA (no AP courses on offer). Jul 20, 2012 - The former chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents, Fingerhut is vice president of education and STEM learning for the Ohio-based research and development firm Batelle. Aug 1, 2013 - The same year, the most recent in the federal Department of Education database, only 7 percent of undergraduates at Washington University were Pell recipients, and 8 percent at Washington and Lee University were, according to John Berg, the vice chancellor for admissions at Washington University, said one reason its numbers are so low is that the disadvantaged students it admits usually have offers from other top colleges with better name recognition.