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OPINION: A New York model helps community college students reach their goals

The Hechinger Report

The ASAP model was designed in 2007 to address institutional barriers to student success, particularly for CUNY’s low-income students. A good example is the Accelerated Study in Associate Programs , or ASAP, at the City University of New York (CUNY). Related: The college degree gap between Black and white Americans was always bad.

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It’s Time To Unlearn & Relearn Learning

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University of California, California high school dropouts cost state $46.4 2007 ([link]. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, New York, 2018). Gruia, “The education pipeline in the United States 1970-2000,” (The National Board on Educational Testing and Public Policy, Boston, 2004). billion annually. UC Santa Barbara. Stevens, T.

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OPINION: Lonely, left out and isolated post-pandemic, our college students need personal attention

The Hechinger Report

Since 2007, suicidal ideation has more than doubled and now impacts 14 percent of students. That includes establishing early alert systems, providing mental health first aid training to faculty and staff and increasing group therapy. The group doubled in size for the next bedtime stories. We read other books and cried more.

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As enrollment falls and colleges close, a surprising number of new ones are opening

The Hechinger Report

Thanks to one-on-one counseling like this, the dropout rate is a third lower than at conventional universities and colleges, according to figures provided by the school. Some of these new efforts are dramatically different from traditional higher education experiences, and their focus is almost entirely on nontraditional students.

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What if we hired for skills, not degrees?

The Hechinger Report

In surveying broader groups of occupations, Burning Glass found a credentials gap of 26 percent for management jobs, 21 percent for computer and math jobs and 13 percent for sales jobs. They cited research showing that the proportion of job listings requiring a four-year degree increased by more than 10 percentage points from 2007 to 2010.

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Proficiency and NAEP scores: Let’s stop talking about trivial distinctions and focus on ending inequality instead

The Hechinger Report

In fact, a 2007 study revealed that 50 percent of the students judged to be merely “basic” in mathematics completed a four-year degree. And scores increased for every major ethnic group between 1971 and 2012. Many non-proficient students are in fact fully prepared for college work. Have they fallen since?

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Marching in Mardi Gras, a New Orleans school that once struggled shows off

The Hechinger Report

Across the city, alumni groups felt left behind, like exiles without a country. Though a few alumni groups still resent the schools that replaced their legacy institution, others have formally collaborated with leaders at their replacement schools. Some schools moved into new buildings emblazoned with new names.

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