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Congress, Education Leaders Discuss Workforce Development Initiatives

On the same day that several top Republican lawmakers trekked to a Virginia community college to tout the proposed SKILLS Act as the solution to a “broken” federal workforce development system, a pair of national higher education leaders informed Congress that the bill has several downsides for community colleges.

March 14, 2013

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The Dysfunctional Linking of Achievement and Race

For all its inadequacies, No Child Left Behind is based on a solemn premise — the belief that all children can learn.

November 1, 2012

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Louisiana Regents Expands Online Services for Adult Learners, Community College Students

Louisiana is expanding its efforts to ease the process for adults to return to college and for community college students to seamlessly transfer to universities.

July 11, 2011

Community Colleges

Report: Adult Learning Programs Needed in U.S. South as Bridge to Post-K-12 Education

The Southern Region Educational Board is urging that Southern states strengthen their adult learning programs to help boost the educational opportunities for the working adult population.

August 5, 2010

Community Colleges

ETS Achievement Gap Symposium Focuses on Adult Learners

In an effort to build research and policy support for the adult post-secondary education sector, the Educational Testing Service (ETS) highlighted the critical role adult education plays in preparing the U.S. workforce in elevating overall education attainment levels of Americans.

March 3, 2010

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Education Practitioners Unveil Innovative Programs To Close Achievement Gap

Days after the U.S. Supreme Court heard a case on English Language Learner (ELL) policy that pit limited-government proponents in Arizona against advocates of bilingual education, researchers, policymakers and education practitioners unveiled Friday some of the best ways to narrow the achievement gap among ELL and other underserved groups during a policy breakfast series at New York University.

April 26, 2009

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Report Calls for Revamping Career and Technical Education To Boost Engagement

Earlier this week, the Southern Regional Education Board unveiled a report calling for revamping career and technical education and integrating it into college-prep high school curricula with a goal of keeping students engaged and focused and better prepared for college and the work force.

May 14, 2008

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Taking the Road of Lifelong Learning

The late Dr. Asa G. Hilliard III, renowned Pan- Africanist scholar, is being remembered with a $5,000 scholarship named in his honor by Road Scholar, an initiative of the world’s largest not-for-profit educational travel organization for adults, Elderhostel.

May 14, 2008

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Ohio Plan Would Allow Adult Learners to Convert Certificates Into a Degree

The cost to attend an Ohio university would be among the lowest in the nation in 10 years under goals outlined Monday to reverse the state’s trend of high tuition and lower-than-average college attendance.

April 2, 2008

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Seeing a Dream Come to Fruition

Thirty years ago, the Rev. Father Boniface Hardin envisioned a language school for African-Americans, but what he founded has become so much more.

June 27, 2007

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Documentary on Community Radio Format Getting TV Broadcast Time

Documentary on Community Radio Format Getting TV Broadcast TimeNEW YORK “LPFM: The People’s Choice,” a documentary on low power FM radio, tells the story of how the community-oriented radio format is “bringing diverse peoples closer together and giving new life to declining communities, new strength to neighborhoods and new voices in the marketplace of ideas,” […]

October 20, 2004

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PBS Expands Distance-Learning Program

PBS Expands Distance-Learning ProgramBy Ronald Roach ALEXANDRIA, Va.For millions of adult learners across the country seeking a convenient way to sift through the confusing array of educational alternatives available to them, the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is offering a helping hand. Last month, PBS launched “PBS Campus,” — a free Web site that allows […]

April 9, 2003