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Lisa Levinson

Views: Beyond 'Tough Choices' - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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    Budget cuts to community colleges highlights the fact that as a society we were never fully committed to remedial students in the first place. Young people and adults who have been criminalized and imprisoned are ineligible for loans, and cannot afford college to turn their life around. These cuts target the working poor, undereducated, and disadvantaged and are a threat to our democracy.
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    Democracy is dependent on educating those students who require developmental education. Funding dev ed is a moral and social issue, not just an educational one.
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Community-College Students Say They Struggle to Get Into Needed Classes - Students - Th... - 0 views

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    By Elyse Ashburn in The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 9, 2011. A recently released national survey, commission by the Pearson Foundation, has revealed that one in five community college students had difficulty getting into at least one course they needed in fall 2010, and almost a third could not get into a class that they wanted.
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    J.E.C. shared this story. It offers some statistics. (Survey available on Pearson; will bookmark as soon as found.)
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