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, 2018
- 1 min
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, 2018
- 1 min
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, 2018
- 1 min
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, 2017
- 2 min
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, 2017
- 1 min
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 22, 2017
- 2 min
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 8, 2017
- 2 min
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 23, 2017
- 2 min
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 24, 2017
- 1 min
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, 2017
- 2 min
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 3, 2017
- 1 min
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 4, 2017
- 1 min
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 3, 2017
- 3 min
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, 2017
- 1 min
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 27, 2017
- 2 min
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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