Question: Educators across the U.S. are calling for major changes to the admission process in higher education. 

The National Center for Educational Statistics (or NCES) reported that U.S. colleges and universities received more than 9 million applications between 2013 and 2014 and admitted more than 5 million students. But the problem is not in the number of students, a new report says. The report is called "Turning the Tide -- Making Caring Common." 

The report argues that the process schools use to choose students causes major problems. David Hawkins is the Executive Director for Educational Content and Policy. He says that most colleges and universities require many things from students when they apply. 

Schools usually require an essay describing a student's interests or why they want to study at that school. The schools also ask for letters from teachers describing why a student is a good candidate. But, Hawkins says, schools are most concerned with a student's high school grades and standardized test results. 

The Education Conservancy is an organization that fights to make higher education equal and available. Lloyd Thacker is the Executive Director of the Education Conservancy, saying that the college admission process has changed a lot. 

"Over the past 30 years, college admissions have become more complex." He says that ranking systems for colleges and universities are a big part of the problem. 

U.S. News and World Report is a media company that creates a list of what it calls "America's Best Colleges." The company bases the list on information collected from colleges and universities across the country. This information includes results of standardized tests like the SAT from all of a school's students. Higher average test results help put schools higher on the list. 

Thacker claims, "Too many students are learning to do whatever it takes in order to get ahead, even if that means sacrificing their own individuality, their health, their happiness and behavior..." 

"The impact on students and on parents is that college is all about where you go. The rank has nothing to do with the quality of education that goes on at the college." 

The Harvard report states that the best way to change the admission process is by changing college applications. 1. Who is calling for major changes?
2. To what?
3. What is the NCES?
4. What do they report on?
5. What is the problem?
6. What causes major problems?
7. Who is David Hawkins?
8. What do schools require?
9. What are schools most concerned with?
10. What is the education conservancy?
11. Who is Lloyd Thacker?
12. What does he say?
13. Have admissions become more complex?
14. What does he say?
15. What is the U.S. News and World Report
16. What is an example of a standardized test?
17. What does the Harvard report state? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. unknown
2. to the admission process in higher education.
3. The National Center for Educational Statistics (or NCES)
4. reported that U.S. colleges and universities received more than 9 million applications between 2013 and 2014 and admitted more than 5 million students.
5. the problem is not in the number of students
6. The report argues that the process schools use to choose students causes major problems
7. David Hawkins is the Executive Director for Educational Content and Policy.
8. require an essay describing a student's interests or why they want to study at that school.
9. schools are most concerned with a student's high school grades and standardized test results.
10. The Education Conservancy is an organization that fights to make higher education equal and available
11. Executive Director of the Education
12. saying that the college admission process has changed a lot.
13. Yes, over the past 30 years, college admissions have become more complex
14. He says that ranking systems for colleges and universities are a big part of the problem.
15. U.S. News and World Report is a media company that creates a list of what it calls "America's Best Colleges.
16. SAT
17. The Harvard report states that the best way to change the admission process is by changing college applications.


Question: A web browser (commonly referred to as a browser) is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI/URL) and may be a web page, image, video or other piece of content. Hyperlinks present in resources enable users easily to navigate their browsers to related resources. 

Although browsers are primarily intended to use the World Wide Web, they can also be used to access information provided by web servers in private networks or files in file systems. 

The first web browser was invented in 1990 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees the Web's continued development, and is also the founder of the World Wide Web Foundation. His browser was called WorldWideWeb and later renamed Nexus. 

In 1993, browser software was further innovated by Marc Andreessen with the release of Mosaic, "the world's first popular browser", which made the World Wide Web system easy to use and more accessible to the average person. Andreesen's browser sparked the internet boom of the 1990s. The introduction of Mosaic in 1993 – one of the first graphical web browsers – led to an explosion in web use. Andreessen, the leader of the Mosaic team at National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), soon started his own company, named Netscape, and released the Mosaic-influenced Netscape Navigator in 1994, which quickly became the world's most popular browser, accounting for 90% of all web use at its peak (see usage share of web browsers). 1. When did marc Andreeseen further innovate?
2. And in 1993 when Marc Andreeseen furthered innovated, what did he release?
3. Was it popular?
4. Did it make the World Wide Web easier or harder to use?
5. How accessible did it make it to the average person?
6. What did it spark?
7. When?
8. What is a web browser commonly referred to as?
9. What type of application is it?
10. Does it retrieve information?
11. What else does it do with information?
12. How is an information resource identified?
13. Can a URL be a video?
14. What else can it contain?
15. How can users easily navigate in their browsers to other places?
16. Can you use a browser on a file system?
17. What does W3C stand for?
18. Who was its director in 1990?
19. What did he invent?
20. What exploded? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. browser software
2. Mosaic
3. Yes
4. easier
5. more
6. internet boom
7. 1990s
8. browser
9. software
10. Yes
11. presenting, and traversing information resources
12. Uniform Resource Identifier
13. yes
14. web page, image, or other piece of content
15. Hyperlinks
16. Yes
17. World Wide Web Consortium
18. Sir Tim Berners-Lee
19. The first web browser
20. web use