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Cuts in State Budgets Threaten Nation’s College-Completion Agenda

Cuts in state budgets are putting the nation’s college-completion agenda in jeopardy, says a new report by the Education Policy Center at the University of Alabama.

The center surveyed members of the National Council of State Directors of Community Colleges, whose institutions’ main goals these days are graduating more students and adequately preparing them for employment.… Continue reading

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U.S. News Urges Law School Deans to Improve Employment Data

The release of the new 2012 Best Law Schools rankings is scheduled for March 15, 2011. In an effort to make our law school employment data more reflective of the current state of legal employment, U.S. News has modified how we calculate the employment rates that are used in the new law school rankings.… Continue reading

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U.S. News Challenges ABA on Law School Employment Data Standards

A recent story in The New York Times,Is Law School a Losing Game?” is creating a great deal of buzz in the legal community, at law schools, and among current and prospective law school students—particularly about the implications of poor job prospects for newly minted law school grads.… Continue reading

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Law School Admission Trends

There’s a lot going on at this time of year, and in today’s post I’d like to give you a heads-up on a few different issues:

Fewer LSAT Takers This Year

The good news: 10 percent fewer people took the LSAT this October than last October according to the Most Strongly Supported blog.… Continue reading

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Timetable for Education Guidelines

The United States Department of Education said it would announce a new timetable Friday for releasing the final version of regulations aimed at the for-profit higher-education industry — and education groups are expecting a postponement of the “gainful employment” rule, a controversial rule cutting off federal student aid to programs whose students have the highest debt burdens and lowest loan-repayment rates.… Continue reading

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Top Careers For The Coming Decade

If you like to work with numbers and have a strong aptitude for mathematics, you’re in luck; the fastest and most stable careers in the coming decade are those that require good math skills. In fact, the four careers that are projected to grow the fastest over the next decade are:

  • Mathematics and science teacher
  • Actuary
  • Statistician
  • Accountancy

Let’s take a look at these one at a time.… Continue reading

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