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Economists find free community college can backfire

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Higher Education. .” Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Proof Points. Of course, there are critics who disagree with an analysis that is focused on measuring completion of four-year degrees.

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For adults returning to college, ‘free’ tuition isn’t enough

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Adults with workplace skills such as human resources training or financial management deserve credit for such college-level learning, said Mathew Bergman, an associate professor at the University of Louisville who is a national expert in adult learning and teaches in the program. Some even earn degrees — but leave without getting them.

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Even at elite colleges lauded for their generosity, some students take on debt

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“These schools are wealthy as heck, and they’re getting basically free advertising by claiming to meet need when they’re not meeting need,” said Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor of higher education policy and sociology at Temple University. So she and her husband never put aside any money for their college educations.

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Inside the Reardon-Hanushek clash over 50 years of achievement gaps

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Hanushek, an economist, believes that the inability to close the achievement gap shows the failure of our education policies to help the poor, especially the $26 billion a year the federal government spends on Title I funding on poor schools and for Head Start preschool programs. Higher Education. Choose as many as you like.

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Senate committee approves Betsy DeVos, “Thoughtless proponent of the privatization of American education”

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Related: Five misconceptions about Michigan education and Betsy DeVos. In turn, nominee DeVos’ staffers wrote answers that allowed her to be maddeningly vague on whether she would continue to support Obama-era education policies, and also on what she might do differently. Read more about higher education.