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April 4, 2019 News
Can scholarship dollars help solve the college ‘undermatching’ problem? This charter network wants to find out
Amy Christie has seen it many times. A student gets into a great college and heads to admitted students’ weekend, excited to explore their academic future. Then they start examining financial aid packages — and the numbers just don’t add up. “Realizing you can’t make that choice is really hard,” says Christie, the senior director of college access and success at the...Read MoreApril 2, 2019 News
Pellissippi State, Cumberland University saw higher enrollment, degree completion with Tennessee Promise
Pellissippi State Community College and Cumberland University saw higher enrollment and degree completion since Tennessee Promise was launched four years ago, according to a new study. Tennessee Promise is a last-dollar scholarship and mentoring program that gives high school graduates five consecutive semesters of free tuition at an eligible Tennessee community or technical college. The...Read MoreApril 2, 2019 News
College-ready students? How about student-ready colleges? | Opinion
America’s community colleges serve as entry points to opportunity for millions of students. Regardless of an applicant’s background or circumstance, these institutions provide programs of study that prepare students with valuable credentials to secure living-wage jobs or with the credits necessary to pursue further study at bachelor’s degree-granting institutions. As president of...Read MoreApril 1, 2019 News
Aldeman: Why Aren’t College Grads Becoming Teachers? The Answer Seems to Be Economic — and the Labor Market May Be Starting to Improve
Updated April 2 For several years, the education world has been worried about the decline in the number of students interested in becoming a teacher. In the wake of the Great Recession, the number of students pursuing education degrees and earning their teaching licenses began to plummet, and the declines were particularly severe in certain states. But was...Read MoreMarch 26, 2019 News
New Numbers Show Low-Income Students at Most of America’s Largest Charter School Networks Graduating College at Two to Four Times the National Average
A fresh look at the college success records at the major charter networks serving low-income students shows alumni earning bachelor’s degrees at rates up to four times as high as the 11 percent rate expected for that student population. The ability of the high-performing networks to make good on the promise their founders made to struggling parents years ago — Send us your kids and we...Read MoreMarch 26, 2019 News