The Baruch Times

Out of all the CUNY colleges in the system, Baruch College is the best and one of the top college in the Northeastern region of United States. Here at Baruch, academic and education is very important because business is very strong. This can be evident in that every year Baruch keeps on climbing up the college and university rankings in the United States.

At Baruch, there are three schools and it is in the city of New York so many students are able to get good jobs after graduation. Every year, it gets harder for students to get into Baruch. This is because students who could have gotten into IVY Leagues instead come to Baruch for that it is cheaper and as a result of money problem as well. Education and academic is very important to the success of colleges and universities.

At Baruch, there is Zicklin School of Business, and it is the most popular institution in the campus. In order for the students at Baruch to get into the Zicklin, there is a certain amount of credits and GPA, you have to earn like 45 credits and at least 2.25 GPA or over. Every year, the recognition of Zicklin is increasing similarly to Baruch as a whole.

Even though, other schools like Weissman School of Arts and Sciences and School of Public Affairs are not as widely known as Zicklin, both schools are trying their best to get famous and get known around the world.

All three of the schools in Baruch College and their goals is that from today until the future that all three schools can be all connected and broaden education and expertise. I hope Baruch College increases their level academically continuously and eventually catch up with the IVY Leagues and make students and alumni proud and tell others how Baruch is good for education.

          The high school equivalency exam is expected to get harder and potentially more expensive. Every year, about 700,000 students takes the G.E.D and about 70 percent of them pass this test. This potential change of the test concerns many people because the new test is expected to have more advanced algebra, and higher-order of critical thinking skills. This change of the test will affect many people because it will most likely send more people away from this test. Many people do not take the test because they do not believe that they will pass so this change of the test will result in less participation of the test and less passing rate. New testing developers are expected to offer high school exams as well. 40 states plan to offer the new GED test while 7 other states plan to offer the Educational Testing Service exam. New York and Indiana have selected McGraw Hill over the other two tests. The new GED is expected to help see if the people who pass the test is ready for college or not. Across the country, a third of those who pass went to college but had trouble keeping with college-level work. A lot of centers that teach GED say that the GED did not help students prepare for college

Original Source:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/12/education/raising-the-ged-bar-stirs-concern-for-students.html?ref=education

In the article “ Effects of Bullying Last Into Adulthood, Study Finds”, Catherine Saint Louis says that although it has been proven that the victims of bullying and bullies are more likely to have mental health problems in childhood, the recent studies have shown that the effects can last into adulthood as well. Through a long observation, the researchers found that the children who experienced bullying had much great chance to develop psychiatric problems in their adulthood, especially for those who were both bullies and victims.

Comparing to other educational issues, bullying can affect children’s adulthood as well. People should not  simply regard bullying as children’s misbehaving because it might have profound effects on children’s life.

Original Source:

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/20/effects-of-bullying-last-into-adulthood-study-finds/

Most students from low-income family often don’t apply to nation’s best college even they have top SAT scores. Based on the analysis that conducted by Caroline M. Hoxby of Stanford and Christopher Avery of Harvard, only 34 percent of outstanding high school seniors from the low-income family will choose to attend country’s 238 most selective colleges, compare to outstanding high school seniors from high-income, this number goes up to 78 percent. Most top low-income students tend to stay at known college, because they don’t have any models, and most top colleges have little or no advantage for these low-income students, on average, the tuition fees of top colleges are much higher than local four years or community colleges, even with financial aid, they still have to struggle with tuition fees. Also these local colleges that low-income students attend have fewer resources and lower graduation rates than top colleges, based on new data, the graduation rate of low-income students in top colleges is 89 percent, and only 50 percent of these outstanding low-income students graduated from less selective college.

Original Source:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/education/scholarly-poor-often-overlook-better-colleges.html?pagewanted=all

Harvard has force dozens of students to leave due to a cheating scandal. In a class government class of 279 students and with “nearly half” cheating, Harvard has pick around 70 students involved in this cheating and force them out of the school. The class cheated on a take-home final exam and caused half of the class to withdraw from the class and now some of the students forced out of the school. This cheating scandal hit Harvard really hard but these academic dishonesty is a surprising event for Harvard. Harvard averages 17 students who are force out of school due to dishonest behavior.  Administrators pointed out that some students had identical answers and typographical errors that help show that the students came together to do the test. But many of students said that it is due to sharing notes or sitting in on sessions with teaching fellows that led to similar answers.

Original Source:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/02/education/harvard-forced-dozens-to-leave-in-cheating-scandal.html?_r=0