What Actual High Schoolers Think of the New College Scorecard
The federal government’s new College Scorecard has been catnip for higher-education wonks, who’ve spent the week crunching the new trove of data that arrived with it, building and sharing tables and opining on Twitter. One group that we’ve heard less from are the very people the new tool is meant to help: prospective college applicants, most of whom don’t yet know about it. To get a student reaction, The Chronicle organized an informal focus group with a handful of sophomores and juniors at Miami Palmetto Senior High School, a public school in this suburb of Miami.