Articles tagged 'college'
March 22nd, 2010
I read an article in the USA Today recently. The article posed the question, “What if a college education just isn’t for everyone?”
The author wrote about a student in Wis. who isn’t planning on attending college. High school junior Brian Crave is in an apprenticeship program instead – on his family’s own farm. He has morning classes at the high school and spends his afternoons working through an agricultural skills checklist. Instead of going to college, Crave plans to continue milking cows and plowing fields.
January 18th, 2010
Researchers Nicole Holland, Ph.D., and Raquel L. Farmer-Hinton, Ph.D., looked into the question of whether school size encourages a college culture. They found that smaller schools, or smaller learning communities within larger schools, were more successful in creating a college culture than big schools.
In the budget battles, their findings that smaller learning communities prepare students for higher education should give student advocates powerful arguments to keep schools small.
For we teachers, the biggest take-away from Holland and Farmer-Hilton’s research is how we can encourage this college culture in our own classrooms.
January 6th, 2010
When our students leave the school systems, just 25 percent of them will have the full-time college experience that we think of: residence halls, football games, fraternity or sorority membership, and maybe a job for a little pocket money.
A Public Agenda Report found that 45 percent of students at four-year universities work 20 hours or more. More than half of the community college students work more than 20 hours a week and more than a quarter work 35 hours or more. Twenty-three percent of all college students have children.
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