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Community Colleges, the Enrollment Bottleneck, and a Dirty Little Secret
On April 8, 2011, the New York Times ran a piece on students making: . . . a strategic financial decision to attend community college first as a cost saving measure. The cost savings can be large (perhaps somewhere in the … Continue reading
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Tagged antelope valley college, bottlenecks, California, college, community college, dirty secret, education, higher education, money, students, teachers
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Should community college professors watch what they say?
If community college professors are any indication, United States citizens, who normally pride themselves on their freedom of speech, are not quite as free to speak their minds as they might like to believe. Academe Online says community college professors are … Continue reading
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Tagged 1st amendment, college, community college, free speech, freedom, life, Politics, professors, speaking my mind, speech, teachers
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I’m Not Ready for English 101 Yet?!?: Why Didn’t Anybody Tell Me?
When students first come to a community college, and take the placement tests, they are sometimes shocked to discover that they’re not yet ready for English 101 etc. The short item below, from today’s Inside Higher Education, suggests that bringing a readiness test to … Continue reading
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Tagged adult education, college, community college, education, English 101, high school, higher education, Santi Tafarella
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