"Stanford University researchers have kicked off a new initiative to change college admissions by focusing more on students’ projects.
The new initiative, called ‘Reimagining College Access,’ is a joint project of Stanford’s Learning Policy Institute and EducationCounsel, a Washington-based consulting firm. Its aim is to help colleges use more complex gauges of student learning—performance assessments—in admission, course placement, and advising.
Unveiled here this week, the project has just gotten off the ground, with early conversations by experts organized into three task forces." …