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Should High Schools Be Penalized For Ill-Prepared Collegians?
Proposed legislation in Mississippi would take funding from school districts to pay for remedial students in state run community colleges. (Photo by Jackie Mader) By Jackie Mader, The Hechinger Report...
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Community College Crucial Place To Train More Top-Flight K-12 Teachers
Jiuck via Compfight By Joanne Jacobs, The Hechinger Report Community colleges are helping train a new generation of K-12 teachers, reports Community College Week. Samuel Simpson, 54, a high school...
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Apprenticeship-Style Education At Community Colleges Gives Workforce Training...
SORTING PACKAGES PAID FOR COLLEGE. Jacque Wilson, 22, inside the mammoth UPS Worldport package sorting facility at the Louisville International Airport. UPS pays the full tuition for 2,000 workers on...
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A Blended Path? How American Honors Cuts Cost of Four Year Degree by Over a...
“That kid with a 4.0 always felt like the reward was going to a great school. You don’t want to let that kid down” (via Pando Daily) By Sarah Lacy On April 16, 2013 When I knew we were doing a...
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LearnUp: eLearning Startup’s Potential Cure for Skills Gap and U.S. Unemployment
Image via thenextweb Alexis Ringwald spent six months in the unemployment lines of Silicon Valley. She realized a core problem was that unemployment offices trained people with skills they thought...
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TrendWatch: Hispanic Students Surpassing Whites In College Enrollment
Mariana Rojas via Compfight By Joanne Jacobs, The Hechinger Report Hispanic high school graduates are now more likely than whites to enroll in college, the Pew Research Hispanic Center reports. In the...
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Ryan Craig: Achieving Apple-ish Adoption & Satisfaction in Higher Education
Lawrence OP via Compfight From iPhone to iCollege By Ryan Craig, Columnist My first lesson about the importance of simplicity in higher education occurred in the early 1990s when Yale made a major...
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Opinion: Community Colleges Fail At Preparing America’s Workforce
Bronx Community College (Photo by Ryan Brenizer) By Norman Augustine and Marc Tucker America’s community colleges are viewed by many—ourselves included—as a not-so-secret weapon in the nation’s...
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VIDEO: Hard Lessons From The Udacity/San Jose State MOOC Fumble
Sarah via Compfight Cisco-sponsored promotional video on the Udacity/SJSU partnership By Anya Kamenetz, The Hechinger Report As most people in ed-tech circles have heard by now, a much-touted MOOC...
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Data Shows Community College Graduation Rates Making Progress
D. Sharon Pruitt via Compfight By Jon Marcus, The Hechinger Report Community college administrators have long complained that their very, very low graduation rates unfairly fail to take into account...
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