America Must Put Community Colleges First

Autor/in	Rab, Sara Goldrick
Titel	America Must Put Community Colleges First
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, 55 (2009) 36, (1 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Community Colleges; Accountability; Educational Quality; Federal Aid; Financial Support; Educational Objectives; Incentives; Educational Innovation; Federal Government; Government School Relationship; Data Collection + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Community college; Community College; Verantwortung; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Finanzielle Förderung; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel; Anreiz; Instructional innovation; Bildungsinnovation; Bundesregierung; Data capture; Datensammlung
Abstract	President Obama has embraced an audacious ambition--to renew America's status as the world leader in college attainment. That goal is daunting, and it leads many people to conclude that they should focus federal investments on four-year colleges. If individuals want to realize the president's goal, that would be a terrible mistake. Located in neighborhoods across the nation, charging lower-than-average tuition, public two-year colleges have the potential to lead the charge to significantly increase the number of Americans holding college degrees. But to succeed, they need a renewed government commitment to their support and leadership. In a paper published by the Brookings Institution, Douglas N. Harris, an assistant professor of educational-policy studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison; Christopher Mazzeo, associate director of policy and research at the University of Chicago's Consortium on Chicago School Research; Gregory Kienzl, director of research and evaluation at the Institute for Higher Education Policy; and the author call on the Obama administration to consider four key federal reforms: (1) Development of national goals and a performance-measurement system; (2) Expanded federal support; (3) Innovation to enhance educational quality; and (4) Accountability through student data systems. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10