Students who hope to move to a four-year university are stymied in red tape
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Liz Willen Dear reader,
Here’s a longstanding truth in higher education: Four out of five students who begin at community colleges say they plan to transfer and earn a bachelor’s degree or higher – but only about one in six succeed. It’s a problem that’s getting worse, with declines even larger for Black students and men, Jon Marcus reports ([link removed]) , in a piece that also ran in the Washington Post.
But what would happen if community colleges and four-year universities worked together to try and solve the problem and test new solutions? That’s a question our story poses, and it’s one we will continue to explore. We’d love to hear your thoughts.
Also, this week we explore new research on inclusion, a much-used policy that keeps students with disabilities in the same classrooms as their general-education peers. Yet the results are inconsistent and somewhat surprising, according to a recent international analysis that Jill Barshay unpacks. ([link removed]) Please check out our fascinating selection of opinions ([link removed]) this week, and start the New Year by telling others to sign up ([link removed]) for our newsletters! Thanks again to all who supported us in 2022.
Liz Willen, Editor
Main Idea
** Bachelor’s degree dreams of community college students get stymied by red tape — and it’s getting worse ([link removed])
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Proportion of those who transfer falls even lower, due to lack of advising, lost credits, complex processes
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** PROOF POINTS: New research review questions the evidence for special education inclusion ([link removed])
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Analysis unable to disentangle which students benefit from being taught alongside general education peers
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The key to breaking cycles of poverty is centering families as decision-makers in schools
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