A new study by the National Bureau of Economic Research suggests that elite colleges should introduce a "bump" of 100 points to lower-income applications on their SAT/ACT scores if they wish to reduce the gap in economic diversity on campus. In this paper, Raj Chetty and other researchers from Brown, UC-Berkeley and the Federal Reserve Board suggest that by making this change it could substancially reduce segretation adn increase intergenerational mobility. 

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Maggy Ralbovsky, executive vice president and managing director, was quoted in an Inside Higher Ed story about how colleges and universities manage institutional reputation.  

A new report from The Institute for College Access & Success (TICAS) has been released detailing mixed outcomes on the effectiveness of short-term education programs.  

A report by the Center for American Progress found that Black and Latinx educators are more likely to borrow federal student loans than White educators, resulting in higher debt coupled with more difficulty paying off the loans. 

A recent report from the ACT Center for Equity in Learning shows that high school students aren’t scoring well when it comes to knowledge of financial aid for college.  

This month a report released by the National Conference of State Legislatures highlights several sobering statistics about incarcerated people and the impact postsecondary programs have in prisons:

The Center on Education and the Workforce at Georgetown University released a new dataset showing how college campuses would change if students at the top 200 colleges were admitted only based on the highest SAT scores. 

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