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50 Best College Movies of the Last Five Decades
By Kristin Marguerite Doidge, Stacker News
On 2/11/21 at 8:00 PM EST
College movies are a cinema staple, delivering those who attended college doses of nostalgia and those who didn t plenty of drama, comedy, and general mishaps to hold their interest. Films with college as the backdrop often focus on characters who are learning what it means to be an adult for the first time, and these stories rarely feature a smooth journey.
Lawrence Turman
Stacker gathered popular college movies from IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes, pulling each film s audience-based IMDb rating and critic-based Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating. All relevant movies were then ranked based on the Stacker Score metric, which weighs both the IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes measurements equally. The top 50 are presented here and ranked from worst to best. While college isn t always the focus of the films on this list, it is the setting at the very least. Also included are det
These Are 50 of the Best Private High Schools in America
By Lisa Borten, Stacker News
On 2/3/21 at 8:00 PM EST
America s private high schools opened long before their public counterparts and even before the United States was first established. The Roman Catholic Church in the 1700s started private schools in Florida and Louisiana while in New York (a former Dutch colony called New Amsterdam), the Dutch West India Company and Dutch Reformed Church set up private schools that filled the void left by the colonies lack of an education system.
That changed in the 1840s when the U.S. instituted a uniform public school system. To stay relevant, private schools changed from marketing themselves as the only option to portraying their education as the best option. To this day, private high schools have positioned themselves as fast-tracks to admittance into elite universities. Faced with the rigorous demands of the highly competitive college admissions process and increased pressure