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Roberts, J. Kessa; Grant, Phillip D. – Rural Educator, 2021
College and career readiness has become a national education policy priority. With more than 9.3 million rural students in the United States, the college and career readiness of rural students is a warranted priority for rural education researchers. Using a combination of Conley's (2012) college and career readiness model, Perna's (2006) nested…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, Educational Research, Rural Education
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Cantor, Nancy; Englot, Peter – Journal of General Education, 2013
We in higher education have allowed the balance of the private and public purposes of liberal education to become skewed in our angst over fully embracing a central role in restoring prosperity and preparing our increasingly diverse population for the evolving responsibility of mending our fraying democracy. As we consider how best to reshape…
Descriptors: Higher Education, General Education, Educational Philosophy, Democracy
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Gill, Andrew M.; Leigh, Duane E. – Economics of Education Review, 2009
Using data for 108 colleges in the California Community College System, this paper poses two questions. First, do California community colleges differ in their missions? Second, if they do, can inter-college differences in missions be explained? We address the first question by developing college-specific measures of curriculum mix, which we use…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Community Needs, Community Colleges, Labor Market