According to data obtained from the NC Community College System (NCCCS), 27 percent of 2016 high school graduates enrolled in one or more developmental/remedial math, reading, or English courses at…
Last year, 34 percent of 2015 high school graduates enrolled in one or more developmental math and/or English courses at a North Carolina community college. This is a sharp decrease…
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) released a report last week that examines postsecondary coursetaking between 2003 and 2009. The report indicates just how few high school graduates are…
Thomas Donlan of Barron’s devotes his latest editorial commentary to the students entering college for the first time this fall. College freshmen are leaving home for new schools and new…
Walter Williams‘ latest column at Human Events explains why the latest edition of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, The Nation’s Report Card, “leaves much to be desired.” When it…
This week’s Carolina Journal Online Friday interview features a conversation with Jenna Robinson of the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy about ways in which today’s universities help erode traditional…
Thomas Donlan of Barron’s structures his latest editorial commentary in the form of a less-than-uplifting commencement speech. Welcome to the world, young college graduates. This is what you always jokingly…
Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal Online that an Appalachian State University expert pans a state Senate plan designed to reduce the need for remedial courses at N.C. community colleges.…
The North Carolina legislature is usually the place where good ideas for reforming higher education reform go to die (OK, one of the places where they go to die). This…
Reporteth the local daily: Proposed legislation in the North Carolina Senate would shift the cost of remediation classes at community colleges to the counties where the students who need them…
State legislators in Tennessee have filed a bill that would require high schools to reimburse the community college system for students placed in remedial courses. According to an article published…
Alex Adrianson explores in a Heritage Foundation “Insider Online” entry the likely negative consequences associated with President Obama’s plan to offer “free” community college tuition. On Thursday, President Obama proposed…