Tagged: "Community College"
Community College and PSEO Classes Can Lead to University Success
For students who want to both save money and prepare for college success, consider taking college classes while still in high school. You may even get into Harvard (or at least the flagship public university in your state)!
Which College Is Best? What Are the Objective Indicators?
How do we know what college is best? What are the objective indicators of educational quality. Zac Bissonnette reminds us that there is no objectivity in this business.
Traditional Four-Year College Degrees are the Exception, not the Rule
You must read this article by Neil Swidley in the Boston Globe. Mr. Swidley pulls together some great information that shatters the myth of the four year college degree. Fact: Census data from 2005 indicate that only 28% of Americans have obtained a Bachelors degree. Fact: Only about 10% of Americans take the “traditional path” [...]
Community Colleges Challenge Hierarchy With 4-Year Degrees
A recent article in the New York Times reports that many community colleges are morphing into four-year institutions offering Bachelor’s degrees. Part of this is about money. Part is about offering professional certifications and diplomas in vocational training (fire science, certain kinds of nursing, teaching, and the like). We are likely to continue to see [...]
Community College Enrollments Continue to Climb
Yesterday I wrote about some research about average salaries of community college graduates, and I commented (negatively) on the researcher’s conclusions that students ought to think twice about attending community college. It seems that hordes of students are ignoring this researcher’s advice. According to Inside Higher Ed, a nationwide survey of 120 community colleges indicates [...]
Federal Reserve Bank Says Don't Go To Community College
Well, methinks the community colleges of America will be having a cow about now. Yesterday, education reporter Mary Beth Marklein of USA Today announced a study that finds a Two-year ‘penalty’ if a student starts his or her higher education in a community college. The study, produced by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, [...]
Former Criminal Needs College, Job Advice
Every once in a while I receive a question from someone for which there is no immediate answer. Today I received a message from a young man who has done jail time, but who wants very much to get his life together. I called him, and he seems quite sincere. He gave me his permission [...]
A Cubist's View of US Community Colleges: Different Aspects Viewed Simultaneously
Two recent articles from education sections of two different publications paint different aspects of our community colleges. If we put the two together, we get an interesting sort of reality. Picasso would have loved this. We can develop a composite picture of a single entity by looking at it from different angles…and then reconstructing the [...]
AP, IB, and Dual Enrollment (or PSEO): An Analysis
A reader recently wrote in to ask my opinion about dual enrollment courses, and to compare them to the Advanced Placement (or AP) options at her sons’ school. The question came on a post I wrote analyzing the worth of AP courses. First, a brief word of explanation about “dual enrollment,” or what some know [...]
If My Grades Are Bad, Can I Still Go To College?
The short answer is yes. I’ve worked with a number of students who had bad grades in high school, but went on to do well in college. I’ve also worked with a few, however, who weren’t quite ready for prime time. So while the answer is yes, a student with bad grades can still go [...]
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