Honors programs cut college costs
Dual enrollment, AP classes and community college honors programs can curb college costs and raise graduation rates, writes Chris Romer, co-founder of American Honors, in the Denver Post. Students who...
View ArticleMaryland legislates college readiness, completion
Maryland’s college readiness and completion law is shaking up the state’s education system, reports Paul Fain in Inside Higher Ed. The comprehensive law, passed six months ago, affects the K-12 system,...
View ArticleHow to earn a low-debt bachelor’s degree
Starting at a community college will cut the cost of a bachelor’s degree, but students have to be savvy to make it work, writes Lisa Ward in the Wall Street Journal. Transferring credits can be be...
View ArticleCareer-tech dual enrollment shows promise
Dual enrollment courses with a career tech focus are drawing more students, according to an Education Commission for the States report. The trend should help states meet college completion and...
View ArticlePell aid for dual-enrollment students?
Extending Pell Grants to dual-enrollment students would encourage low-income students to get a head start on college, advocates argued before a congressional briefing yesterday. “For low-income...
View ArticleIt’s hard to measure community colleges’ value
Some associate-degree graduates earn no more than high school graduates, according to a study by the American Institutes for Research. Most community-college students see a significant return on their...
View ArticleDual diplomas for 2 sets of twins
San Jacinto College dual credit students (from left) Saige and Shianne Willingham; Travis and Trevor Blackwood. Photo credit: Rob Vanya, San Jacinto College Graduation was twice as nice for two sets...
View Article‘I saw college as a foreign country’
Karina Madrigal “thought college would be too challenging,” perhaps “impossible,” she writes in an Education Week commentary. Her parents, Mexican immigrants, hadn’t made it past middle school. “I saw...
View ArticleColorado makes progress on remediation
Joshua Polson at The Greeley Tribune Professor Jeanine Lewis reviews complex numbers during class at Aims Community College. Colorado’s community colleges and state universities are improving remedial...
View ArticleThis way up
STEPHANIE RABELLO, REGISTERED NURSE | Working her way from practical nurse to registered nurse to bachelor-degree nurse. Preston Mack for The Wall Street Journal There’s more than one route to the...
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