Joanne Jacobs
'Dual credits' aren't very helpful, but that can be fixed
Dual-credit programs are supposed to put students "on the fast track" to an affordable college degree, but many teens are earning credits...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 29
- 1 min
Everyone passes -- or else!
Universities will have to push failing students above the 50 percent mark or pay hefty fines under legislation proposed by the Australian...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 14
- 2 min
KIPP schools are game changers
KIPP charters are game changers, concludes a new Mathematica study. Compared to similar students who applied to KIPP but lost the...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 11
- 2 min
Half of community college students meet career goals
Sixty percent of former community college students, surveyed 10 years later, said they enrolled primarily for career or personal reasons,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 2
- 2 min
College-going is down, and that could be a good thing
The U.S. could close the college readiness gap -- if the college-going rate keeps falling, writes Fordham's Michael Petrilli. Of course,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 31
- 2 min
The readiness is (almost) all
Who goes to college? Enrollment rates vary widely by family income, race and ethnicity and gender, but among students of similar academic...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 3, 2022
- 2 min
When teachers believe, students achieve
"All students can learn" was the school district's slogan, printed on the stationery back in the era when mission statements were new....
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