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...September 2006 report that between 1.4 and 2.4 million bachelor’s degree candidates would be dissuaded from pursuing their degree by financial strains. But in an addendum this week, the Committee said that their estimation was based on a predicted college enrollment rate and patterns that were incorrect. “Between 1992 and 2004, a major shift in enrollment away from four-year colleges occurred among college-qualified high school students from low- and moderate-income families,” the update said. According to the Committee, increasing college costs, coupled with student aid, made many students...
...these hurdles, saying cheerleading is “not a priority on Harvard’s campus,” despite the alumni and fans that “recognize the talent level of the team.” And not only are the Harvard views of cheerleading usually incorrect, the views exacerbated by pop-culture tend to be false as well. Catty competition à la “Bring It On” does not occur in the real world of college cheerleading; team members say that, in general, the competition is friendly. Now that Harvard?...
...many years now, colleges have contented themselves with cleansing their curricula of politically incorrect presumptions and prejudices—so-called Great Books programs and American civic education, to offer two examples—meanwhile creating preserves, regardless of academic rigor, for the trendy and ideological disciplines like the study of women, gender, and sexuality...
...trap. Certainly many rural Americans have a wide variety of reasons for opposing gun restrictions. But to claim that there exists a single “rural America” that universally rejects such proposals and considers suggestions to the contrary as a cultural affront is not only wildly incorrect, it’s insulting...
...incorrect information provided by the Clinton campaign, the original version of this article wrongly stated that Clinton's state director in Pennsylvania is Mary Eisenhower, granddaughter of Dwight D. Eisenhower. In fact, the campaign's state director's last name is spelt Isenhour, and she is no relation to the former president. The article also had the incorrect spelling and title of Anna Burger, as well as the wrong name for the Service Employees International Union...