
‘Work colleges’ go urban
The “work college” model — students are required to work as part of their education — is spreading to cities, reports Hechinger’s Delece Smith-Barrow. Paul Quinn College, a historically black college in Dallas, has reinvented itself as the first urban work college. “In August, when Paul Quinn’s 2018-19 school year begins, it is expanding to a new campus in Plano, Texas, just weeks after announcing a fledgling partnership with two urban schools in Michigan and Ohio,” reports S