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5 Things You Should Know About Borrowers Who Drop Out
Today marks the first day of Student Debt Week of Action. This makes Degreeless in Debt: What Happens to Borrowers Who Drop Out even timelier as I investigated what happens to a growing class of...
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5 Ways to Help Borrowers (and All Students) from Dropping Out
From Portland State University's College Student Peer Mentoring Program America’s college completion agenda is more urgent than ever. As Degreeless in Debt found, rising college prices are putting...
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Quick Hits (3.13.12)
‘Higher education monopoly is crumbling as we speak.’ And universities that don’t change or adapt to online courses offered through new programs, like MITx or Udacity, will be the U.S. Leather Company...
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Predicting the end of the semester. Officials at Austin Peay State University are piloting a new tool, Degree Compass, that guestimates a student’s chances of success, based on past academic...
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Guest Post: ‘Degreeless in Debt,’ An Update Worth While
Guest blog post written by Larry Gladieux and Laura Perna, authors of “Borrowers Who Drop Out.” A headline on the Business page of the Washington Post March 11, 2012, read “Student loans seen as...
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The Community College Problem in Erie (and Other Cities Like It)
Within six years, two-thirds of all American jobs will require a postsecondary degree or certificate. The bad news? Less than one in three Americans currently has a bachelor’s degree. The good news?...
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Quick Hits (5.18.12)
‘The dilemma of academic diversity.’ On today’s anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, Mike Petrilli asks how we can better integrate our schools. (Flypaper) Vital information. The proposed...
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Quick Hits (6.19.12)
Leaders and Laggards. Nationally, completion rates at four-year, public universities are somewhere around 50 percent, according to a report out today that takes a state-by-state look at higher...
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Step 1: Encourage Innovation in Competency-Based Education
To be sure, assessing college students based on competencies (rather than the number of credit hours earned) is difficult and messy. Competency-based education requires a huge re-think in higher...
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Budding entrepreneurs. The First-Fourth Key Chain Co. is a business of first- and fourth-grade partners who create and sell key chains, setting their prices based on the cost of their supplies. (h/t...
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Making Higher Education More Cost-Effective
The cost of college for students goes up every time they’re placed in a remedial course or they lose credits because of a transfer, says Teresa Lubbers, Indiana’s Commissioner for Higher Education. “It...
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If the public were in charge. A large majority of Americans say teachers should be laid off based on poor performance, not seniority, according to a new report out today. (Thomas B. Fordham Institute)...
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“A college system at the breaking point meets the Internet revolution.” Jeff Selingo, a member of Education Sector’s new K20 Task Force, talks MOOCs (Massively Open Online Courses) and the future of...
View ArticleWhy Tuition Freeze Gimmicks Don’t Work
It seems like tuition “freeze” proposals are gaining popularity again. We’ve been down this road before. Several states froze tuition in the early 1990s (Virginia, California, Washington, etc.) and...
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Questioning the validity of value-added. A new study, to be presented next month, argues that “a teacher could, in effect, boost his or her value-added score simply by teaching all higher-level...
View ArticleQuick Hits: Post-Election Roundup
What the re-election means for K-12 … President Obama will focus on expanding Race to the Top, supporting early education, and better training educators to teach in STEM-related fields, say education...
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Every minute counts. “Five minutes wasted each day on sloppy (classroom) routines translates into 21 lost class periods each year.” (Stanford Social Innovation Review) Early education for everyone....
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Passport, please. International students make up the majority of U.S. STEM field Ph.D.s according to a new study by the National Foundation for American Policy, but the number of international doctoral...
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Higher education matters. With the cost of college continuing to go up, many ask the question is college worth it? The short answer is yes. College graduates on average earn nearly two times more that...
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