There has been a 14 percent decrease in the number of Yale students getting Pell grants in the last 8 years, according to Pell Institute senior scholar Tom Mortenson study, reports the Yale Daily News. Dean of Admissions Jeff Brenzell disagreed by citing more limited data which statistics professors at Yale argued were statistically invalid. [...]

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The top two reasons that college applications continue to rise nationwide with such ferocity are: 1. demographic figures, i.e., increasing numbers of high school graduates in the echo boom and 2. application culture changes in the sense that more students are applying to more places than ever before. These nice explanations since they are neat [...]

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I am currently working as an intern at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and got a press release hit last week from one project that the center is involved in. The Citizen Media Law Project does a lot of good work providing legal education for people involved in… you guessed it, citizen media. [...]

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Teachers, educators, and librarians sometimes ponder the possible uses of Facebook as an education tool; students and teachers alike talk about the awkwardness and occasional utility that arises from online social networking interactions between-groups. The Education Committee of Missouri has weighed in with a proposal which paints its picture using a giant “sex offenders are [...]

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