Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

A more holistic assessment of students, including the use of the ACT test score alongside HSGPA, acts as a better predictor. That’s according to the latest report from the ACT , which analyzed high school GPAs, ACT test scores, and first-year grades in students from 2017 to 2021. Before the pandemic, in 2017, a student who had a 2.5

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 29, 2024

How much do grades really tell us about students? The analysis, conducted by The Equitable Grading Project, found that six out of 10 middle and high school grades do not accurately reflect student performance. Of the 33,000 grades examined, more than 40 percent were higher than they should have been.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Between June 2004 and June 2020, almost 12,000 institutions of higher education closed their doors. Some of those institutions closed in an orderly fashion—students, faculty and staff were given ample warning, and arrangements for continuing a student’s education at another institution, teach-out plans, are made.

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