标签: 美国教育

Experts advices on how to narrow down your choices of schools. Tempted to throw up your hands in confusion over the multiplicity of colleges to choose from? Feel like throwing darts at a wall papered with all those brochures stuffing your mailbox? In that case, you already know that narrowing your wish list to a mere handful of target, reach, and safety schools is tough. But wait. Did someone say a "mere handful"? Yes. Despite anecdotes of anxious students' applying to 20 schools or more,…

Article from missoulian.com, entitled Professor details flaws in American education, by ROB CHANEY of the Missoulian: Liberal arts may be too liberal for the good of students, history professor and author Patrick Allitt told University of Montana faculty and students Monday. Allitt is director of Emory University's Center for Teaching and Curriculum in Atlanta. While much of his expertise is in following how intellectual ideas like conservatism or communism mutate when translated into gover…

An article on globalization, education and jobs in America, with a number of recommendations for changes in education to meet the challenge. Jobs and education are connected at the hip. They have been since the industrial revolution began drawing people from the farms to the cities to train as assembly line workers. Jobs and education are joined today, as our educational system struggles to meet the new demands of the communications age. ...... Students from Asia to Europe outperform Ame…

Reported on Xinhuanet (2007-04-03): ETS cancels plans to revise GRE General TestEducational Testing Service (ETS) announced its decision on Monday to cancel plans to launch the revised Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) General Test, since the problems they generate outweighed the benefits of moving to the new format immediately. The decision was made in consultation with the Executive Committee of the GRE Board, said the world's largest private education testing and measurement organiza…

Reported by USAToday on that All four-year U.S. colleges now accept ACT test. More about ACT and SAT: History: For decades, the 81-year-old SAT, owned by New York-based College Board, was the test of choice for colleges on the East and West Coasts. The ACT, which made its debut in 1959 and is based in Iowa City, was adopted primarily by schools in between. Scores: When college admissions officials compare ACT and SAT scores, they typically convert them to a single measurement using…