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Download full textSelingo, Jeffrey – Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 2020
Lorain County Community College (LCCC) was designed for access, however, not necessarily completion. The college was unprepared for students who wanted to earn a degree but then often didn't make it to graduation. In 2011, LCCC retained fewer than six in ten students. Its three-year graduation rate was 8 percent. For African American students, it…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Criticism, Graduation Rate, School Holding Power
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Direct linkWang, Wei-ni; Seggie, Fatma Nevra – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2013
Long seen as adaptive, responsive, and flexible higher education institutions in the face of educational, economic, and social changes, the American community college model has been adapted in many parts of the world. However, the extent to which the American community college model could be successfully adapted and implemented depends on the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Community Education, Vocational Education, Foreign Countries
Obama's American Graduation Initiative: Race, Conservative Modernization, and a Logic of Abstraction
Kuntz, Aaron M.; Gildersleeve, Ryan Evely; Pasque, Penny A. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2011
The American Graduation Initiative stands as the cornerstone of the Obama administration's higher education agenda. To investigate the state of the politics of education in the Age of Obama, this article employs critical discourse analysis to unveil the hidden meanings and ideological commitments inherent in Obama's policy discourse. Read within…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Presidents, Agenda Setting, Politics
