Education Aug 21 Opening the doors to more low-income students reshapes a university By PBS News Hour
Education Aug 21 The new tool colleges are using in admissions decisions: big data The same big data techniques that are transforming other industries are seeping into the college and university admissions process to help predict whether students will succeed and graduate. By Emmanuel Felton, The Hechinger Report
Education Aug 21 Can just-in-time advice keep more college students on track? Online course management tools, which track students’ work and grades for a class, can also change their behavior and improve performance. By Kyla Calvert Mason
Education Aug 20 Watch 6:53 How community colleges can help close the graduation gap By PBS News Hour
Education Aug 20 After trying everything to increase graduation rates, this college is cutting back Few colleges have signed onto the national college completion agenda with as much vigor as Sinclair Community College. And while national graduation rates have seen only a slow inching up, Sinclair has managed a big jump. By Paul Fain, Inside Higher Ed
Aug 20 Californians pay for state’s public colleges but increasingly can’t get in By Matt Krupnick, The Hechinger Report California once showed the world how a state could guarantee a college education for nearly every resident, but then it failed to provide the long-term funding to do it. Continue reading
Aug 19 Watch 6:20 Should financial aid only go to college students in need? By PBS News Hour At many colleges and universities, merit-based scholarships are meant to attract the best and the brightest students. But opponents say they can inadvertently end up rewarding the richest applicants. That’s why some schools have started giving out need-based aid only. Continue watching
Aug 19 Twitter Chat: Merit vs. need-based scholarships By Margaret Sessa-Hawkins In America, many scholarships are given out based on merit, handed out to students who have good grades and high test scores. While this plan is meant to attract the best and the brightest, it can also mean that money… Continue reading
Aug 19 Tennessee scraps classes standing between less-prepared students and college credit By Kyla Calvert Mason When classes start at Tennessee’s community colleges next week, the path to a degree or certificate will have a new starting point. More than 70 percent of the state’s students starting a two-year degree program have test scores showing they… Continue reading
Aug 19 Employer steps in to help low-income students get through college By Meredith Kolodner Mercedez Vargas really wanted to get her high school diploma, but she struggled to get passing grades at a last-chance night school in the Bronx just as she had in the daytime at Marie Curie High School. A college degree?… Continue reading