Wednesday, June 1, 2016

The New College Application by Eliza Gray

Magazine: Time Magazine
Date: April 18, 2016
Article: The New College Application
Page: 47
Author:  Eliza Gray
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Questions
1. Who won a state title in tennis?
2. What is ZeeMee?
3. Why are some of the colleges and universities dropping or de-emphasizing standardized tests as an admissions requirement?
4. What type of students are the colleges and universities trying to find?
5. What is the Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success?
6. What is the coalition trying to do?
7. How many degree-granting schools exist in the U.S.?
8. What did the Justice Department end in 1991?
9. When did the common Application start?
10. How many college admission applications did Stanford University receive this year?
11. What percentage of all the applicants did Stanford University accept?
12. What four things do you need to do in order to have a leg up on the college acceptance process?
13. Who said students are prepping for college admissions in 8th grade?
14. The digital locker is meant as an outreach tool.  True or False
15. How will students be informed of the digital locker?
16. Who will review the digital lockers before the high school students submit them to colleges?
17. Who said that the coalition is an attempt to create an exclusive pipeline to the next generation of students?
18. What does this statement by the President of Bard College, mean to you?  "They (Coalition) think they can mask their naked self-interest through virtue.  It allows them to recruit earlier.  This is a market-cornering enterprise."
19. What are the buzz-words coming from admissions offices?
20. In this whole article, which sentence stood out to you?  Copy that sentence here
21. What did that sentence from question #20 mean to you?
22. Why is this sentence from question #20 important to you?

Reference
http://time.com/author/eliza-gray/
https://www.zeemee.com/
http://www.coalitionforcollegeaccess.org/
http://www.collegetransitions.com/
http://www.bard.edu/academics/faculty/details/?id=7

After a Most Violent Year, an Ailing City Looks for Signs of Hope by Josh Sanburn

Magazine: Time Magazine
Date: April 25, 2016
Article: After a Most Violent year, an Ailing City Looks for Signs of Hope
Page: 13
Author:  Josh Sanburn
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Questions
1. What happened in West Baltimore on April 12, 2015?
2. How many murders did Baltimore have in 2015?
3. What happened to the criminal trials of the six police officers?
4. Who was fired?
5. Who didn't run for re-election?
6. How many candidates will be running for Mayor?
7. Which candidate is running a campaign on improving schools and creating jobs?
8. Which candidate is running a campaign that when she was in office, there was less crime?
9. Who is a Black Lives Matter activist and social media star?
10. What is the "Gray Effect"?
11. Who is the new Police Commissioner?
12. Have arrests increase or decrease with the new police commissioner?
13. Before the unrest, Baltimore halted a decades-long population decline.  True or False
14. What neighborhood started looking like a real neighborhood instead of a tourist showpiece?
15. Who is leading the multi-billion dollar effort in Port Covington?
16. What is the Port Covington project?

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