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Paper Provides Guidance For Research On College Transition at College Puzzle
Policy and discussion on the transition from secondary school to college has exploded in the last decade. But how can we figure out what works and why policy is growing across the states? A new paper by Michael McLendon at Vanderbilt and Donald Heller at Penn State is an outstanding review of much research to date. But their real objective is to provide concepts, data bases, and methods to understand policy diffusion and impact in the 50 states. This is the best compilation I have seen for scholars of state policy, and enumerates the needed data. But this kind of large scale research is difficult to implement as the authors stress.
Does College Ready=Career Ready? at College Puzzle
A major debate is growing about whether secondary students who want to attend technical colleges or work oriented programs in community colleges need the same academic preparation and college placement scores as students who go to four year colleges ,or intend to transfer there from community colleges. Some contend the academic standards should be identical for both groups. Others say the academic prep in high school should be different for students who want to pursue postsecondary courses in welding or automotive repair.
Community Colleges Move Away From K12 And Students Suffer at College Puzzle
Just as teachers’ colleges moved away from K-12 education over the past century, community colleges have distanced themselves from secondary schools. Today, over 45% of undergraduates attend a community college, an increase of 10% in the last decade . This number has been increasing because of heavy use of community colleges in fast growing states like California, Texas, and Florida. California, for example, enrolls two-thirds of its college freshmen into the community college system . After 1960, community colleges became the primary institution for increasing college opportunity. Originally, community colleges were funded like public schools with mostly local support, state supplements, and no tuition. In California, community colleges originated as part of the local K-12 system and were considered the 13th and 14th grades.
Obama Vows to Restructure Worker-Training System - Chronicle.com
Washington — President Obama promised today to help the unemployed, including the 539,000 who lost their jobs last month, by making it easier for them to receive federal aid for worker-training programs and community-college classes.
Proportion of Full-Time Students With Unmet Need Is Greatest at Community Colleges - Chronicle.com
Community colleges may be the bargain of higher education, but many students who attend them cannot reasonably afford them, according to a new analysis by the Institute for College Access and Success.
News: No Community College Left Behind - Inside Higher Ed
WASHINGTON – With President Obama talking a big game about boosting support for community colleges, some educators have released a specific plan to do so in an ambitious way.
Thursday, the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program released a report chock-full of recommendations for the federal government to bolster its commitment to the country’s community colleges and help transform them into “engines of opportunity and prosperity.”
Views: Postsecondary Education Goes to Work - Inside Higher Ed
President Obama’s speech on connecting education and jobs and his lightning quick move opening Pell Grants up to unemployed adults deserves more attention. It tells a lot about the shape of things to come. Education, training and employment and social services policy have always been grouped in the same federal budget category -- Function 500 in the federal budget -- and shared an appropriations subcommittee in Congress. But the programs have never been integrated.
Eduwonk » Blog Archive » Creating College Success
My buddy down the street at Typical Urban High teaches an “Algebra 2 class.” Nobody in his class had passed Algebra 1.
Can you really teach kids to simplify this 8x3y2z2 + 5x2yz3 - 3xyz + 4x2yz3
….when your kids cannot do this y = 3x + 2?
It’s ludicrous.
In Politics of School Reform, Transparency Doesn't Equal Accountability - US News and World Report
Transparency is powerful and President Obama has rightly made it a pillar of his administration's approach to policymaking. But transparency also offers the seductive promise of an easy way out for policymakers. It can trap proponents of various policy proposals in an intellectual cul de sac because it becomes easy to see information as sufficient to drive reform rather than just as a predicate for change. The risk is especially potent when proponents are convinced of the obviousness of the changes they seek.
Education Week: Dropout Rates
A loophole in school policy allows students to be "discharged" from the 1 million-student New York City district without being counted as dropouts, and the problem has gotten bigger since a 2002 report brought the issue to light, according to a recent report Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader .
The Quick and the Ed
"Two forthcoming journal articles show that controversial policies allowing illegal immigrant high school graduates to attend college at in-state prices work. In the nine states with policies (a tenth, Nebraska, did not have theirs in place long enough to study), foreign-born noncitizen Latinos were 1.54 times more likely to enroll in college than peers in states without such assistance."
Historical Divide Persists between k-12 and Postsecondary Education at College Puzzle
"In recent years the deeply-embedded chasm which uniquely separates K-12 from postsecondary education in the United States has received unprecedented attention.
Policies for curriculum assessment, alignment, finance, data, accountability, and coordination are separated by a K-12 and postsecondary education disjuncture."
Bachelor's Degree Recipients Continue to Outearn Others, U.S. Census Reports - Chronicle.com
"Workers with bachelor’s degrees earned an average of $26,000 more per year than those with only high-school diplomas, according to a new report on education trends released today by the U.S. Census Bureau.
The annual report, “Educational Attainment in the United States: 2008,” is based on data drawn from the bureau’s Annual Social and Economic Supplement, a survey conducted from February to April at 100,000 addresses across the country."
BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog
"Yesterday, BoardBuzz reported new NAEP results showing that U.S. students are continuing to make gains in reading and math. To our admittedly pro-public school mind, this is obviously good news. Yet judging by yesterday’s coverage, NAEP, which is also called ”the nation’s report card,” should more accurately be described as ”the nation’s Rorschach test.”"
BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog
"The message from the five witnesses who testisfied before the House Committee on Education and Labor at a hearing today was clear: U.S. students need to be competitive globally. One way to get there is to have “fewer, clearer and higher” academic standards."
Playing the Class Warfare Card | New America Blogs
"The student loan industry's campaign to save the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) program may have just hit a new low. Industry officials appear to be trying to stoke middle-class anger over President Obama's proposal to use the savings from ending FFEL to make the Pell Grant program into a true entitlement for low-income students."
Eduwonk » Blog Archive » NAEPing
"Today’s new NAEP data is mixed news with enough kernels for people to argue that current policies are/are not helping improve achievement especially for traditionally under-served kids, are/are not hurting advanced kids, some encouraging results for early grades but not for high school etc…it’s a stimulus program for education partisans! Short answer, we need to do a lot better but all is not lost. But, you don’t need a weatherman…Sam Dillon predictably finds the clouds for you."
Education Week: Lawmakers in Oklahoma Move to Establish Office on Data Systems, Testing
"Oklahoma lawmakers have sent the governor a measure that would move the office that analyzes student test scores out of the state education department to make it independent from the agency responsible for student instruction."
Education Week: College Board Backs Tuition Aid for Illegal-Immigrant Students
"The College Board is urging Congress to give undocumented immigrants tuition aid and a path to citizenship in light of efforts in several states to block... "
Education Week: Texas Lawmakers Work to Overhaul Accountability System
"Standardized tests would take a backseat to preparing students for success after high school in an overhaul of the state's public school accountability system adopted Wednesday in both chambers of the Legislature."
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