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  How States Become Eligible for Race to the Top Funds

  We've talked a lot about Race to the Top on this blog-from its initial announcement to what states were doing to apply for the funds to which...

  by Nikhil Swaminathan +

• Design

  

  Teach Design: The Importance of Failure

  Ongoing investigations into a project that brings design to a local high school in Austin. design mind on GOOD is a series exploring the power of...

  by Rob Stokes +

• Design

  

  Ten Steps to Becoming the Designer You Want to Be

  An open letter to the next generation of designers, part 1. Everyone has moments in their career when they look back and think, "If I had only...

  by Laura Seargeant Richardson 2

• Design

  

  Ten More Steps to Becoming the Designer You Want to Be

  An open letter to the next generation of designers, part II.   design mind on GOOD is a series exploring the power of design by the editors of...

  by Laura Seargeant Richardson 3

• Design

  

  TeachDesign: Making Ideas Real

  After teaching local high-school students the benefits of design, a team of frog designers helps them realize a goal.   design mind on GOOD is a...

  by Meriah Garrett +

• Education

  

  Elite University Starts Schooling Prison Inmates

  Well this is something: Wesleyan, one of the country's more elite schools, has started a program where inmates in a nearby high-security prison...

  by Siobhan O'Connor +

• Education

  

  When Is It Okay to Drop Out of School?

  On the heels of Siobhan's post on the report detailing the (obvious) reason people drop out of college, I find myself wondering: When is it okay...

  by Patrick James +

• Education

  

  Are Too Many People Going to College?

  Great discussion over at Chronicle of Higher Education about who should and should not go to college, and whether the model at most universities...

  by Siobhan O'Connor 1

• Education

  

  New Report Confirms the Obvious: Students Drop Out Because College is Expensive

  Newsflash: Students drop out of college because it's expensive, and because they find it hard to support themselves and be in school at the same...

  by Siobhan O'Connor +

• Education

  

  Examining the Phenomenon of Grade Inflation

  A new study appearing the Journal of Economic Perspectives examines grade inflation, a little quirk of  college politics that pits majors...

  by Nikhil Swaminathan +

• Education

  

  Should Colleges Let in the Same Number of Guys and Girls, Regardless of Who Applies?

  This is a question being taken up in D.C., where a sex-bias probe will determine whether area schools are forcing an equal male-female student...

  by Siobhan O'Connor 3

• Education

  

  Is Stanford Really the Most Stressful College in the United States?

  In the wake of the rash of suicides that have taken place this year at Cornell University, The Daily Beast unveils its list of the 50 most...

  by Nikhil Swaminathan +

• Education

  

  Haves Versus Have Nots: Another Reason to Finish School

  The nearly 20 percent of 16- to 24-year-olds that are unemployed has been described as a potential lost generation. Strong language, but Matt...

  by Amanda M. Fairbanks 1

• Cities

  

  This Just In: Park Slope Is Elite, Bourgeois Heaven

  The folks over at Very Small Array, a blog dedicated to infographics, are at it again-this time documenting the college bumper...

  by Amanda M. Fairbanks +

• Education

  

  Student Debt

  GOOD and Futurefarmers look at the nation's ballooning student debt.

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• Business

  

  Incoming Freshman Less Keen on Wall Street

  Blame it on the bad P.R. that workers in the financial sector got over the last couple years. Or blame it on the belt-tightening, unemployment and...

  by Nikhil Swaminathan +

• Education

  

  1941: How Your Average College Woman Got Dressed

  How many skirts? How many stockings? As the modern woman eschews clothing purchases for an entire year, The New York Public Library's blog...

  by Amanda M. Fairbanks +

• Education

  

  If Your Daddy Went to College and Made Lots of Money, You Probably Did/Do Too

  Biology is still very much destiny, insofar as sons are concerned. The Economist has a nifty infographic that looks at how well-educated and...

  by Amanda M. Fairbanks +

• Education

  

  SAT Prep Gone Wild

  Only wealthy kids are lucky enough to get primed for their SATs with a formal prep course, right? Not anymore. The online social enterprise I Need...

  by Liz Dwyer +

• Education

  

  College and the Reputation-based Economy

  The transformation of higher education and how you can be in on it. In his novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (free download here),...

  by Anya Kamenetz 5