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5 ways the COVID-19 pandemic could affect your college application

Whitney Soule, Bowdoin College The coronavirus pandemic has intensified college application anxiety. I make this observation as an admissions dean who, as of late, has...

Simply scrapping the SAT won’t make colleges more diverse

Guadalupe I. Lozano, University of Arizona When the University of California decided in early 2020 to stop using the ACT and SAT in admissions by...

Test prep is a rite of passage for many Asian-Americans

Julie J. Park, University of Maryland When ACT released its latest test scores this past October, the results showed that average scores took a dip...

EXPLORING NATURE

How pecans went from ignored trees to a holiday staple –...

Shelley Mitchell, Oklahoma State University Pecans, America’s only native major nut, have a storied history in the United States....
A fisherman looks at the Suralaya coal-fired power plant in Cilegon, Indonesia, in 2023. Ronald Siagian/AFP via Getty Images

Can the world quit coal?