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Lisa Levinson

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

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community_college budget_cuts democracy GPG GSCC funding

shared by Lisa Levinson on 09 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Lisa Levinson on 09 Jul 10
     
    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.
  • Lisa Levinson on 09 Jul 10
     
    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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There's No Learning When Nobody's Listening - 0 views

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GSCC students listening learning op_ed

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  • KPI_Library Bookmarks on 16 Jul 12
     
    By Nadine Dolby, Commentary column, The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 9 2012. In this commentary piece, Dolby describes a panel in which she invited her undergraduate education students to meet with a panel of "real" parents in the hopes of getting some new perspectives on K-12 education. As a matter of course, she required them to refrain from using cell phones, texting or tweeting. And she observed that these students then had a great deal of trouble just listening. She argues that, in a democracy, it's not enough just to share your own opinions, you must also listen to those of others. She concludes, "Teaching our students how to truly listen may be the most important multicultural lesson of all."
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Meaning of Intelligence - 0 views

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GSCC coffeeklatch education

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  • KPI_Library Bookmarks on 07 Oct 10
     
    Part of the NPR series, Speaking of Faith, hosted by Krista Tippett and first broadcast on January 7 2010. In this presentation, Tippett speaks with Mike Rose of UCLA's Graduate School of Education and Information Studies on the idea of what kind of education befits a democracy.
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That Old College Lie - 1 views

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GSCC ECS MCNC editorial college_completion cost attainment

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  • 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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