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The Cost of Higher Education - 0 views

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shared by KPI_Library Bookmarks on 27 Apr 10 - Cached
  • KPI_Library Bookmarks on 27 Apr 10
     
    This link provides background and live webcast for the debate, The Cost of Higher Education, held on April 27 2010. Panelists include Gail Mellow, president of LaGuardia Community College and co-PI of the GSCC project.
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That Old College Lie - 1 views

www.democracyjournal.org/that_old_college_lie.html

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shared by KPI_Library Bookmarks on 27 Apr 10 - Cached
  • But the biggest problem with American higher education isn’t that too many students can’t afford to enroll. It’s that too many of the students who do enroll aren’t learning very much and aren’t earning degrees. For the average student, college isn’t nearly as good a deal as colleges would have us believe.
  • The average graduation rate at four-year colleges in the bottom half of the Barron’s taxonomy of admissions selectivity is only 45 percent. And that’s just the average–at scores of colleges, graduation rates are below 30 percent, and wide disparities persist for students of color. Along with community colleges, where only one in three students earns a degree,
  • Less than 40 percent of low-income students who start college get a degree of any kind within six years.
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  • A 2006 study from the American Institutes for Research found that only 31 percent of adults with bachelor’s degrees are proficient in "prose literacy"–being able to compare and contrast two newspaper editorials, for example. More than a quarter have math skills so feeble that they can’t calculate the cost of ordering supplies from a catalogue.
  • KPI_Library Bookmarks on 27 Apr 10
     
    By Kevin Carey in Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, Issue #15, Winter 2010. In this editorial, Carey (policy director of think tank Education Sector) argues that colleges are not fulfilling their mission to students: costs are rising and students are not learning (or even graduating). He argues for transparency and studies of the effectiveness of teaching and learning, and warns of the education-related lobbies that keep the rest of us in the dark about higher education.
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Senate Panel Ponders Soft Drink, Beer Tax Hike - 0 views

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shared by KPI_Library Bookmarks on 18 Nov 11 - Cached
  • KPI_Library Bookmarks on 18 Nov 11
     
    Posted to YouTube by AssociatedPress on June 3 2009. This video, produced by Associated Press, looks at the issue of whether taxes on "unhealthy" food and drinks will help to slow sales, thus keeping people healthier (and holding health care costs in check).
  • KPI_Library Bookmarks on 18 Nov 11
     
    NH (week 6, semester 2) used this video and a companion (also bookmarked) to help illustrate the issues that students were reading/writing about.
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MIT OpenCourseWare - 0 views

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  • KPI_Library Bookmarks on 08 Feb 11
     
    According to their About page, "MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity." There is also a note on this page that each published course "requires an investment of $10,000 to $15,000....Courses with video content cost about twice as much...."
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Outline for Redesign of Developmental Math (Cleveland State Community College) - 0 views

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shared by KPI_Library Bookmarks on 25 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • KPI_Library Bookmarks on 25 Feb 11
     
    Spearheaded by John Squires (who has since moved to Chattanooga State Community College), this page outlines the redesign, looking at impact on students, cost savings, lessons learned, and sustainability. All data as of June 2009.
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CUNY Offers Intensive Remediation Program - 0 views

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shared by KPI_Library Bookmarks on 24 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • KPI_Library Bookmarks on 24 Oct 11
     
    By Michael Winerip in the On Education column of the New York Times, October 23 2011. The article highlights students who have attended NYC high schools but then failed their placement tests when they arrived at CUNY community colleges. The system now offers an intensive remediation program called Start in which students focus on all 3 remediation subjects (reading, writing and math) for 5 hours/day, 5 days/week, all for a cost of $75 for the semester.
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