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College premium varies
The college premium is growing, but higher education’s benefits vary significantly depending on “individuals, types of credentials, occupations, and geographical locations,” concludes an Urban...
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Not every college student wants a degree. “Skill builders” use community colleges to pick up expertise, writes Eddie Small on the Hechinger Report. Once they have what they need, they depart. If...
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Colleges lag on campus child care
A majority of community colleges don’t offer child care on campus. That’s why student parents with young children are more likely to drop out than other students, according to AAUW’s Women in...
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All the way through
Whether a college student earns a degree — or just a few memories and a lot of debt — correlates very closely with family income, writes Paul Tough in Who Gets to Graduate? in the New York Times....
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Is college worth it for everyone?
Going to college is “clearly” a smart economic choice because the “college premium” is increasing, wrote David Leonhardt in the New York Times. Not so fast, writes Grace at Cost of College. There’s...
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Enrollment patterns are ‘chaotic’
Community college students enrollment patterns are “chaotic,” concludes a Community College Research Center study at five colleges in the same state. Only 1 percent of first-time, full-time students...
View ArticleFeds miscount online students
How many students are learning online? The federal Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, or IPEDS, is unreliable, concludes a study by the WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies and...
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What to do about dropouts
Lauren Bizzaro owes $40,000 for three years of college. (Caleb Kenna for The Wall Street Journal) College dropouts are the “untouchables” of higher education, writes Richard Vedder, director of the...
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If 100 students start college, who graduates?
Of 100 students from four different income groups who began a two-year or four-year college in 2002, who earned a degree by 2008? asks the Washington Post. (Click the link to check out the nice...
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‘Gainful employment’ rule drops defaults
Community college leaders like the U.S. Education Department’s final gainful employment rules, which focus on graduates’ debt-to-earnings ratio, but don’t consider default rates. The new regulations...
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