Katherine Lindsay writes: My alma mater, Lawrence University, will stop requiring ACT/SAT scores as part of the undergraduate admission process in 2006. This is, in part, a reaction to the “overemphasis of testing” by the Bush administration. Several other liberal arts colleges are following suit. I wonder how moves by small liberal arts colleges like [...]
"Life is not a multiple choice test,
it's an open-book essay examination."
-Alan Blinder
Archive for February, 2005
Are colleges “endangered?”
2/19/2005
Article link: Colleges: an endangered species? Andrew Delbanco ponders in the New York Review of Books (March 10, 2005) what a college education means today: “for the relatively few students who still attend a traditional liberal arts college—whether part of, or independent from, a university—what do they get when they get there?“ Read the entire [...]
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