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University of California faculty from the humanities, social sciences, arts, business, law, and education have published their own open letter backing their STEM colleagues’ push to restore standardized testing and they’re going further, calling for both the math and the verbal reasoning sections of the SAT/ACT to return to undergraduate admissions.The new letter explicitly endorses the earlier letter from more than 600 UC math and STEM faculty, then broadens the argument: it’s not just calculus students who are showing up underprepared. Reading, writing, and quantitative reasoning gaps are surfacing across non-STEM fields, too. Would you like to save this?We’ll email…

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Key PointsThe Department of the Treasury is set to take over servicing of $179 billion in defaulted federal student loans owed by 7.8 million borrowers (about 18% of all federal student loan borrowers) under a March 2026 interagency agreement with the Department of Education.A new Congressional Research Service report finds the transfer would more than quadruple the number of debtors Treasury’s collection program handles, at a time when the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has lost roughly 40% of its workforce.A 2017 test of Treasury collecting student loans found Treasury resolved defaulted loans at a lower rate than the Education…

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