Alyssa Nadworny
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483 appearances
58 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 23 Aug
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It is a start point of the marathon.
She expects most students will have to wait until at least next spring to get those federal dollars.
Alyssa Nadworny, NPR News.
ETS administers a number of exams already, the GRE for graduate admissions and the TOEFL, an English language test taken by many international students.
And now they'll take over the ACT.
More than a million students take the ACT each year as part of college applications and to get their high school diploma.
More than a dozen states include taking the ACT as a requirement to graduate.
ETS has struggled in recent years with layoffs and buyouts.
It was historically the administrator of the SAT, another college admissions test that rivals the ACT.
But in 2024, the college board, which owns the SAT, took the administration over.
China is investing heavily in university research.
At the same time, the Trump administration has upended the federal pipeline of research dollars to American institutions.
David Corey, a scientist at Harvard Medical School, was one of the researchers whose federal grants were frozen last year.
He's been studying gene therapies meant to reestablish hearing in children.
But the disruption to federal funds has meant his rivals in China are the ones finding breakthroughs.
China's billions are paying off.
In a global ranking measuring academic output, Harvard lost its top spot to a university in China.
In fact, seven out of the top 10 schools are now in China.
Alyssa Nadwarni, NPR News.
China is investing heavily in university research.
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