Word: highers
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...Harvard came out poised in the second half. The Crimson started to use its exceptional passing game to its advantage by using a greater width of the field than it had in the first and placing its forwards better by putting them higher up on the field. The team also put more pressure on the Penn defense by stepping up closer on Penn's 16-yard hits...
Changes in a school's U.S. News & World Report ranking can affect that school's admission statistics, according to a recent study by Cornell Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations Ronald G. Ehrenberg and James Monks of the Consortium on Financing Higher Education...
...found that if you improve in the rankings by one position, you will see more students apply, a smaller fraction admitted and a higher yield from the students accepted," Ehrenberg said. "You also have higher average SAT scores and can get away with giving less financial...
...current educational philosophy--a cultural obsession with "making it," symbolized by the intensely scrutinized SAT. But the SAT is only a portion of "the big test" of Lemann's title. In his book, Lemann argues convincingly that the academic elitism of the American meritocracy, structured by its system of higher education, never lived up to its morally defensible Jeffersonian ideal of educating an intellectual few who would serve and advance the national community. Rather, the current system of selection for higher education based on the related criteria of academic performance, scholastic aptitude and IQ, has become a method of distributing...
...less extreme statement of the principle that performance should be valued over potential is sound, but Lemann's statement that this principle is blatantly violated in today's America is not entirely convincing. Certainly, higher education is strongly linked to money and power and an impressive college credential carries weight. But Americans rarely work at the same job their entire lives these days. Our entire lives are tests, and to whatever end, the college-educated workforce is a driven population...