Posts Tagged ‘OECD’
DC Shuttle: SCOTUS Ruling Suggests Colleges Can Continue to Use Diversity as Admissions Tool for Now; Congress May Revisit Loan Rate Debate After Recess; US Spends Most on Ed
by The New England Council
July 1, 2013
Supreme Court affirmative action ruling. On Monday, the Supreme Court released a ruling in the case of Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin. The 7-1 decision was indecisive, remanding the case for reconsideration in the lower courts and directing lower courts to use "strict scrutiny" in affirmative action cases. The result of the ruling ...
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OECD Invites New England Higher Ed Leaders, Students to Paris for Conference on “Mass Higher Education”
by Journal Staff
June 7, 2012
The OECD invites New England higher education leaders to attend its Programme for Institutional Management in Higher Education's 2012 General Conference on “Attaining and Sustaining Mass Higher Education” to be held from Sept. 17 to Sept. 19 in Paris. The conference will examine: Where have we got to in attaining and sustaining mass higher education? What ...
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Trends & Indicators: High School Success
by NEBHE Staff
April 9, 2012
Updated April 2012 ...
New England public schools were expected to award more than 147,000 high school diplomas in 2008-09. Fully 78% of New England 9th-graders graduate from high school in the "normal" four years time, compared with 70% nationally. Nearly a dozen foreign countries outperform the U.S. in the percentage of 25- to 34-year-olds with a high ... Read MoreTags: Education Week, high school success, John O. Harney, National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS), OECD, Trends & Indicators | No Comments
