Joanne Jacobs
Best colleges for economic payoff
Which colleges are best at helping students graduate, earn more and pay back their student loans? The University of North Carolina at...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 16, 2018
- 2 min
Short on college students? Add casino studies!
As the U.S. is running low on 18-year-olds. Non-elite colleges are having trouble meeting enrollment or net tuition revenue targets,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 6, 2018
- 1 min
California offers training for ‘stranded workers’
California is moving ahead with an online college for “stranded workers,” reports Mikhail Zinshteyn on EdSource. It will offer short-term...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 4, 2018
- 2 min
Job hunting 101
Job hunting is a class at Skidmore, a liberal arts college in upstate New York, reports NPR’s Elissa Nadworny. Paul Calhoun, a business...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 13, 2018
- 1 min
Summer jobs aren’t for teens any more
Immigrant adults are taking summer jobs once done by U.S. teenagers, writes Paul Bedard in the Washington Examiner. “Immigrants — legal...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 11, 2018
- 2 min
Linking dollars to degrees is tricky
Linking community college funding to graduation rates is tricky, writes David Kirp, a Berkeley professor and of the Learning Policy...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 9, 2018
- 2 min
Don’t tie diploma to college-prep coursework
Requiring college-prep coursework to earn a diploma is a mistake, writes Russell Rumberger on EdSource. An emeritus University of...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 7, 2018
- 2 min
Gates: Facts are your friends
Bill Gates is offering all 2018 college graduates a free download of his favorite book, Hans Rosling’s Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 13, 2018
- 2 min
STEM is for C students too, says report
Young people can succeed in technical jobs even with mediocre grades in math and science or liberal arts majors, claims a new study, on...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 10, 2018
- 2 min
Middle school to manufacturing
Middle-schoolers in Ohio are learning math, science and programming — and competing in contests such as MakerMinded to expose them to...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 7, 2018
- 3 min
Connecting working-class kids to high-tech futures
Carlos Huerta, an engineering student at Downtown College Prep Alum Rock High, works on wheels for a “drop-and-dash” robot for the...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 17, 2018
- 1 min
Learning about work starts early
When my daughter was in preschool, she wanted to grow up to be a ballet dancer. I remember a boy who wanted to be a tap dancer and a chef...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 6, 2018
- 2 min
Elite colleges perpetuate inequality
Elite universities help well-off students do well, writes Derek Thompson in The Atlantic. They do little for upward mobility because they...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 2, 2018
- 1 min
Bootstrapping is harder in U.S.
Our competitors do a better job of enabling students to gain more education than their parents, she writes. Once, public education was...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 25, 2018
- 1 min
College, college, college — what about trades?
While U.S. students are told that a four-year college degree is the only route to success, employers are paying top dollar for those...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 24, 2018
- 2 min
From ‘early college’ to careers
uses job-market data to help students plan their futures, reports Catherine Gewertz in Education Week. Students at iLEAD Academy...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 19, 2018
- 1 min
Career-tech students work hard, learn ‘soft’ skills
“Students who take a lot of career-and-technical-education classes in high school are hard workers who are less likely than their peers...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 18, 2018
- 2 min
Put students on the adulthood track
The primary purpose of education isn’t preparation for college, writes Ray Domanico, director of education policy at the Manhattan...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 2, 2018
- 2 min
College for all — but not college degrees
More first-generation, low-income students are going to college — but not completing a degree, writes David Leonhardt in the New York...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 22, 2018
- 2 min
Udacity ends nanodegree job guarantee
Udacity has ended its get-a-job-or-your-money-back guarantee for its Nanodegree Plus program, reports Lindsay McKenzie at Inside Higher...
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