There has been a lot of debate lately on the value of remedial classes. As it turns out, adult learners who get placed in remedial…
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Research published in 2020 by the National Bureau of Economic Research showed that there is untapped potential in older students. As many as 30 million…
What happened in Texas this month wasn’t pretty. The large-scale failure of the Texas energy grid caused widespread power outages. At exactly the same time,…
Palomar College, in San Marcos is one of California’s 116 community colleges. It hasn’t had a good year. At exactly the same time the COVID-19…
According to the latest figures from the State of Michigan, residents filed more than 40,000 applications for Michigan Reconnect. Michigan Reconnect is the state’s new…
A newly released report from Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s Poverty Task Force (PTF) says that 43% of Michigan residents don’t make enough money to get by.…
Governor Gretchen Whitmer introduced her proposed state budget this morning, and included $180M for free community college programs. Granted, the proposed budget is a long…
New York’s community colleges will be eliminating administrators and staff to manage $35M in proposed budget cuts this year. The same institutions will cut an…
The pandemic has ensured that no one has had a really good year. (Except Eric Yuan.) Nothing has worked out as expected, and 2021 is…
I have mentioned this before, but a quick trip through the news reminds me of the disadvantages of revenue-backed bonds. In the last week, Santa…