community colleges

Research: Five Studies Show Online Learning Not Working at Two-Year Colleges

Newest California study finds students are 11% less likely to pass an online version of the same class. by Jill Barshay Here’s an unusual case where scholarly research is producing a clear conclusion: online instruction at community colleges isn’t working. Yet policymakers are continuing to...

New Study: Adjuncts’ Students More Likely to Drop Courses & Get Lower Grades

by James Peterson Di Xu, is an assistant professor of educational policy and social context at the University of California, Irvine. Her study, "Academic Performance in Community Colleges: The Influences of.

In Connecticut Community College Merger Plan, Hundreds of Adjuncts Could Lose Jobs

“It will stop the bleeding,” Mark Ojakian, president of the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities and architect of the plan, said Friday. On March 16 it will be in the.

Guess Who’s Most Likely to Default on Their Student Loans?

Student loan default rates have doubled over the last decade, and new research from Adam Looney of the U.S. Treasury Department and Constantine Yannelis from Stanford University, shows most of the increase is associated with the number of non-traditional borrowers attending for-profit schools and two-year...

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