by Alia Wong | Aug 10, 2020 | education, government, k-12 education, money matters
Zachary Carr hadn’t known Victor for long. Carr, 21, began tutoring the rising fifth grader in mid-June, shortly after wrapping up his junior year at Middle Tennessee State University. But Carr had spent enough one-on-one time with Victor to discern that the boy was...
by Alia Wong | Nov 8, 2019 | government, higher education, money matters
It took a little more than a decade for the University of Chicago to reinvent itself, going from a well-regarded but largely regional school to an extremely selective university with national prestige. In 2006, the Hyde Park university admitted more than a third of...
by Alia Wong | Jul 12, 2019 | government, higher education, money matters
As Yankton College’s only full-time employee, Jan Garrity knows how tough running a postsecondary institution can be. There are students to educate and degrees to confer; faculty and staff to hire and pay; a campus to maintain and a mission to uphold. But the college...
by Alia Wong | Jun 18, 2019 | government, higher education, lifestyle, politics, race
Like most other colleges across the country, Newbury College, a small, private liberal-arts school in Brookline, Massachusetts, held classes through the end of this past spring semester and then bid farewell to cap-and-gown-wearing seniors. But unlike almost every...
by Alia Wong | Oct 14, 2018 | government, higher education, language & culture, lifestyle, politics, race, special interest
Samantha remembers her high-school days more as a trial version of college. She seems part amused, part ashamed as she recalls the hours she dedicated to reworking her résumé—or the hours on top of that spent plowing through SAT exercises in the home of her...
by Alia Wong | Mar 14, 2018 | early childhood education, education, government, higher education, k-12 education, politics, public schools
It was, perhaps, the best opportunity she had to patch up her reputation since starting her new job. Betsy DeVos, the country’s highly unpopular education secretary, had been asked to participate in an interview on 60 Minutes, and the news-media-shy billionaire...
