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New routes to success in learning are popping up around the country
A sampling of Hechinger reporting for The New York Times’s Learning section
Some colleges seek radical solutions to survive
Many schools are trying strategies from the business world to stay afloat
Questioning their fairness, a record number of colleges stop requiring the SAT and ACT
Results are mixed, but suggest that making these tests optional is improving diversity on campus
COLUMN: Harvard critic finds white jocks and rich kids get preferential treatment in admissions
Economist estimates that three-fourths of white students who are athletes, legacies, big donors or faculty children would have been rejected
Will colleges with sky-high default rates face consequences?
New federal data reveals schools where more than half of students default on their loans. Will the government take action?
The students disappearing fastest from American campuses? Middle-class ones
Anxious about diversity and their bottom lines, more schools offer money to the middle
Colleges and states turn their attention to slow-moving part-time students
Fewer than one in five students who go part time will graduate within even eight years
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