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Stumbling blocks remain for newly minted teachers, career-switchers
Career-changers are increasingly entering classrooms across the country. Their numbers have doubled over the last 20 years.
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Why we need a K-16 education system
By Bill Maxwell
Three out of every five community college students take remedial courses, which typically cover middle school or high school material. This is evidence of the yawning gap between those who are eligible to enroll in college and those who are actually ready to attend.
This gap is inexcusable. Students should come to college ready to do college-level work.
Q&A: Why are U.S. teachers on the defensive?
Teachers have been having a tough time lately. Their unions are under pressure to accept pay cuts and fewer benefits. States are threatening massive teacher layoffs in response to budget deficits. There’s a major push to make teachers more effective, with how teachers are trained, evaluated, tenured and compensated all on the table. In [...]
Survey: Recession, budget cuts derail Pre-K expansion
Early education programs are struggling to serve all the children who qualify for them, as the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression has caused states to slash budgets and reduce spending, according to an annual survey of state-funded programs by the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers University.
Expansion in 2009 was slower [...]
In their own words: Community college coaches talk about educating athletes
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is a former basketball player, but it wasn’t the grace of reverse lay-ups and the thrill of slam dunks that captivated him during March Madness. Instead, Duncan tried to focus attention on the poor academic performance and abysmal graduation rates of Division I basketball players. Duncan proposed that teams [...]
Jobless dropouts head back to school for basic skills
By Christopher Connell
LOUISVILLE — The push to return unemployed workers to the nation’s payrolls is hamstrung by a decades-old legacy of poor schooling that has left tens of millions of Americans without the basic reading or math skills necessary for today’s jobs.
Has Obama’s interest in early education waned?
By Linda Jacobson
A year ago, President Barack Obama’s budget pledge to make early-childhood education one of his top priorities created enormous excitement among advocates who had long pushed for greater federal investment.
How Maryland universities were able to cut costs and keep tuitions down
By Jon Marcus
The members of the board of regents that oversees Maryland’s multibillion-dollar public university system settled in around a whiteboard in a sterile conference room as if preparing for a siege.
Community colleges: Higher education’s Bermuda triangle
By Camille Esch
Vast numbers of students enter community college remedial classes every year. Few are ever heard from again.
