Joanne Jacobs
College without remediation
If remedial classes don’t help college students succeed — and there’s lots of evidence for that — what’s the alternative? California...
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Joanne Jacobs
Aug 23, 20181 min read
Raising college grad rates may lower quality
The push to get more students to a college degree may be lowering the quality of a college education, writes Jon Marcus for the Hechinger...
Joanne Jacobs
May 1, 20181 min read
For the unprepared, college is a ripoff
Colleges are ripping off poorly prepared students, charges Walter Williams, a George Mason economics professor, in the Daily Signal....
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 3, 20181 min read
It helps to aim high
So far, there are 28 comments on last week’s post about charges that community college placement tests are a “segregation machine”...
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 28, 20172 min read
Remediation called ‘segregation machine’
Community college placement tests create a “segregation machine,” pushing Latinos and blacks to dead-end remedial courses, a professor...
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 7, 20171 min read
Grad rate rises as diploma’s value falls
America’s high school graduation rate is at an all-time high, yet a high school diploma doesn’t signify college readiness, career...
Joanne Jacobs
Aug 21, 20172 min read
Keep ‘American dream machine’ running
My grandfather, who came to the U.S. as a boy round about 1900 — one of those huddled masses sailing past the Statue of Liberty — went to...
Joanne Jacobs
Aug 7, 20172 min read
Remediation for college credit
Starting in 2018, California State University will give students college credit for courses that include remediation, reports the Los...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 22, 20172 min read
Arithmetic to algebra in a semester
Remedial math is the Bermuda triangle of community colleges. Many enter. Few go on to pass a college-level math class. City University of...
Joanne Jacobs
May 23, 20171 min read
Cal State set to drop placement tests
California State University, which recruits from the top third of California graduates, plans to stop using placement tests to decide...
Joanne Jacobs
May 3, 20172 min read
Is it college or middle school?
California State University schools will stop placing unprepared students in remedial courses, reports EdSource. Instead, they’ll have a...
Joanne Jacobs
May 2, 20171 min read
California legislators target remedial ed
Community college remediation is doing more harm than good, argues the California Acceleration Project in a new report, Up to the...
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 3, 20171 min read
It’s hard to create schools that ‘work for everybody’
Creating schools that “work for everybody” is a challenge, writes Education Week‘s Catherine Gewertz. When the bell rings at Wheaton...
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 2, 20173 min read
A guided path to a degree
Young people go to college to search for him/her/xe-self, explore, experiment, discover a passion . . . Or perhaps to retake algebra,...
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 27, 20171 min read
Too poor for college
Millions of Americans start college, but never finish a degree. Why not? Poor preparation and too many competing responsibilities,...
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 26, 20172 min read
Remaking remediation
Eighty percent of new community college students in the City University of New York system test into remedial reading, writing and/or...
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