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Jeff Selingo wrote Dream School for families. College leaders, especially those at tuition-dependent, four-year residential undergraduate institutions, should read it as market research. Across the book, a consistent message emerges:…
My obsessive read this month has been The Signal Solution: How Smart Colleges Stop Chasing Applications and Start Converting Students by Geoff Baird and Teege Mettille. It’s a work of…
The recent proliferation of articles regarding Congress’s cap on federal student loans, following the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill, has focused primarily on the impact on graduate students…
When I was in sixth grade, I received an academic scholarship to an independent school in Maryland. It changed the direction of my life. My experiences at that private school…
The first wave of generative AI changed how people write, search, summarize, code, and brainstorm. Since the first version of ChatGPT was opened to the public, I’ve written frequently about…
The headline finding of Law Professors Prefer AI Over Peer Answers is almost too neat. When law professors were asked to choose between short answers written by other law professors and…
It’s almost impossible to read any news about education without reading articles about the future impact of Artificial Intelligence on how we learn and how we work. If there’s a…
For the last few years, the test-optional debate has often been framed as a simple yes-or-no question: should colleges require the SAT or ACT, or should students be allowed to…
