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Apprenticeship vs. college
College isn’t for everyoneYoung male apprentices earn 2 percent more than community college graduates, according to Canadian researchers, reports The Globe and Mail. The first study, by University of Toronto professors Morley Gunderson and Harry Krashinsky, found male apprentices earn 24 per cent more than those with just a high-school diploma, 15-per-cent more than those with other trades [...]
Off the charts: Bad statistics and bad public policyIt’s time to ditch college for all, writes Robert Samuelson. Enrollment has soared since the GI Bill was passed after World War II, he notes. College became the ticket to the middle class, the be-all-and-end-all of K-12 education. If you didn’t go to college, you’d failed. Improving “access” — having more students go to college [...]
More students borrow, especially at for-profitsAutonomy in exchange for accountability. That’s been the value proposition offered by the charter school movement from its inception. Freed from the bureaucracy clogging the workings of traditional public schools embedded in dysfunctional school districts, charters would engage in bold, innovative practices that could serve as models for diverse communities of children. In exchange for [...]
Completion by Design thinks bigMore students are borrowing for college, especially those at four-year for-profit institutions, according to the Education Department’s The Condition of Education: 2012. As the economy has shrunk and the cost of college has increased, financial aid has gone up as well. Between 2006-7 and 2009-10, the percentage of first-time, full-time undergraduates receiving financial aid increased [...]
Students learn just as much in ‘hybrid’ classesCompletion by Design (CbD), a Gates-funded intiative to boost low-income community college students’ graduation rates, is thinking big, reports Community College Week. For example, one third of community college students in Texas — 289,000 in all — will be enrolled in CbD programs. Working with the Community College Research Center, CbD colleges in Texas, Ohio, North Carolina and [...]
Students learn just as much in classes that blend traditional and online learning, concludes a new study, Interactive Learning Online at Public Universities: Evidence from Randomized Trials. Students at six public universities were assigned randomly to take statistics “in a hybrid format (with machine-guided instruction accompanied by one hour of face-to-face instruction each week) or [...]
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