 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, 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. Please check out our fascinating selection of opinions this week, and start the New Year by telling others to sign up for our newsletters! Thanks again to all who supported us in 2022.
Liz Willen, Editor
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