Friday, 2 March 2012

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New Plan to Cut College Costs? Been There, Done That

Posted: 01 Mar 2012 04:00 PM PST

"The hearts and pocketbooks of American parents sang with joy when President Obama announced a plan to make college more affordable," Patrick O'Connor writes for the Huffington Post Detroit blog....

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College Affordability and The Latina/o Student: Some Advice

Posted: 01 Mar 2012 04:00 PM PST

"With so much policy discussion centered on the affordability of higher education, some students may be second-guessing whether attending college is right for them," Charlene Collazo writes in...

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College Is Not Always the Answer

Posted: 01 Mar 2012 04:00 PM PST

"Right now a third of the work force has a four-year college degree or further education," Lawrence Mishel, president of the Economic Policy Institute, a research organization, writes for the New...

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Tentative Agreement Reached on 3 of 5 TEACH Grant Regulatory Proposals

Posted: 01 Mar 2012 04:00 PM PST

Teacher Preparation Negotiated Rulemaking continued with a second round of negotiations this week. Proposed changes to the Teacher Education Assistance for Higher Education (TEACH) Grant Program led...

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Opinion: How to Stop Starving Public Colleges and Shrinking the Middle Class

Posted: 01 Mar 2012 04:00 PM PST

"America is already making it harder for young people of modest means to attend college. Public higher education is being starved, and the middle class will shrink even more as a result," Robert...

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Where the Jobs Are, the Training May Not Be

Posted: 01 Mar 2012 04:00 PM PST

"As state funding has dwindled, public colleges have raised tuition and are now resorting to even more desperate measures - cutting training for jobs the economy needs most," the New York...

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Students Rally Across California to Protest Education Budget Cuts, Shut Down UC Santa Cruz

Posted: 01 Mar 2012 04:00 PM PST

"Students, educators and Occupy Wall Street activists held demonstrations Thursday across California to protest state budget cuts to education, partially shutting down at least one college campus,"...

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New Three-Year Degree Programs Trim College Costs

Posted: 01 Mar 2012 04:00 PM PST

"Paying eight semesters' worth of tuition, room and board, textbooks, and other fees can add up to tens of thousands of dollars - and that's only if you finish college in four years," according...

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For a Middle-Class Life, College Is Crucial

Posted: 01 Mar 2012 04:00 PM PST

"People with at least some college are staying in the middle class or moving up," Anthony P. Carnevale, director of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, writes for the New...

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Some Need More Help to Succeed in College

Posted: 01 Mar 2012 04:00 PM PST

"Each year, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, graduates students who've known their potential their entire lives and others who've needed us to show it to them," Freeman A. Hrabowski III,...

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