Tech colleges to link funding, job placement
Technical colleges in Texas are working on a plan to link all funding to graduates’ employment and earnings. Job training is the mission of the two-year public colleges.
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College isn’t for everyone. Also on Community College Spotlight: Frustrated by low graduation rates, states are experimenting with performance-based funding of community colleges.
View ArticleMichigan bill: Let students choose districts
Michigan will consider letting students choose their school district, reports the Detroit Free Press. Per-pupil funding would follow students to their public schools of choice. The proposed Michigan...
View ArticleCalifornia debates performance funding
California Gov. Jerry Brown wants to tie a percentage of university funding to performance goals, such as raising four-year graduation rates. But university officials say the plan is unrealistic.
View ArticleMassachusetts ties college $ to results
Massachusetts will link 50 percent of community college funding to improvements in graduation rates, workforce development and minority and low-income student success. That’s one of the most ambitious...
View ArticlePerformance funding doesn’t boost success
President Obama’s higher education plan lauds states that link college funding to student success measures, but there’s “little evidence that performance funding improves student success,” new studies...
View ArticlePerformance funding spreads in higher ed
Massachusetts will link half of community college funding to performance metrics, such as raising graduation rates, meeting the state’s workforce needs and improving success rates for minority...
View Article‘We are creating Walmarts of higher ed’
“Speeding up college and making it cheaper risks dumbing it down,” according to some professors, reports Timothy Pratt in The Atlantic. Under pressure to turn out more students, more quickly and for...
View ArticleWill college grad rates rise in 2014?
Twenty-six states now link college funding to student outcomes or are planning to do so, reports Complete College America. Twenty-two states are accelerating college remediation or placing students in...
View ArticleTennessee seeks college ‘stickiness’
In hopes of lowering high college dropout rates, Tennessee now links some college funding to graduation rates. State universities are trying to improve student “stickiness,” reports PBS NewsHour.
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