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Low Bar, High Failure
Community colleges expect little of their first-year students, study finds, but students fail to meet even low standards.
Public University Accountability 2.0
Reboot of Voluntary System of Accountability aims to give institutions more flexibility in reporting student learning -- but new options (including non-standardized one) may not have expanded enough to win many converts.
Opinion
Making the Best of Assessment
Professors are right to doubt the motives of many of those pushing for precise measures of student learning, but that doesn't mean the ideas behind assessment aren't valid or that they are inconsistent with the liberal arts, writes Adam Kotsko.
Opinion
A Better Factory Model
The factory production model can work as a means for evaluating community college efficiency, write Clive Belfield and Davis Jenkins.
Scorecards Get an A
California's community colleges get graded with new completion scorecards. Experts say the data are among the best provided by a public college system.
Seeking Rigor in Study Abroad
At annual gathering of study abroad administrators, speakers describe a need for programs guided by more clearly defined learning outcomes.
Opinion
Learning to Adapt
Curricular systems and materials that adapt to the learner are emerging slowly but surely as a potentially major force in higher education, Peter Stokes writes.
Now What?
Gainful employment takes another hit in court, jeopardizing a possible appeal and raising questions about federal collection of data on higher education.