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Open Enrollment For Prepaid College Tuition Program
CBS Local
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Parents, grandparents and other family members can lock in tuition costs for a child's college education at today's rates. Open enrollment for Nevada's prepaid tuition program is under way through Feb. 28. The program allows ...
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FCIR
13th Grade: At Miami Dade College And Across Florida, A Crisis of Unprepared ...
Huffington Post
She said until high school curriculum aligns with college curriculum, state and community colleges need to fill in the gaps by offering remedial courses, also known as “developmental education.” “One of the downfalls of developmental education ...
College is more than job trainingMilwaukee Journal Sentinel
Opposing view: $10K degree a populist gimmickUSA TODAY
13th Grade: How Florida Schools Are Failing To Prepare Graduates For CollegeStateImpact Florida
FCIR -BBC News -Magnoliareporter
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News Tribe
Online Education: WellesleyX, a Grand Experiment
Huffington Post
Online education has been hailed by some as the potential savior of higher education. It is expected that online education will enable more students to be educated, more cheaply, with more thorough assessment, and more focus on usable job skills.
Wellesley College joins online education ventureBoston.com
Wellesley College teams up with online provider edXBoston Globe
Free Wellesley College Classes Coming Soon to a Computer Near YouPatch.com
BostInno (blog) -Harvard Crimson
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Online Courses Force Changes To Higher Education
NPR
Online college courses are attracting hundreds of thousands of students, and that's forcing colleges and policymakers to rethink higher education. The online courses may pose a serious challenge to the way institutions deliver a college education ...
Degree Inflation? Jobs That Newly Require BA's
New York Times (blog)
Despite the sob stories you hear about unemployed college graduates, bachelor's degrees have actually gotten more valuable over time. The wage gap between the typical college graduate and those who have completed no more than high school has been ...
Escalating tuition threatens harm for ECU future
Greenville Daily Reflector
While those are all reasonable concerns for the university to have, East Carolina's mission to serve this region is made more difficult when it prices higher education beyond the reach of talented students who come from less fortunate means ...
Business + Education background = New college leadership
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
In his estimation, to succeed as a college president in today's environment, a background in academia just won't cut it. That classroom and administrative experience must be supplemented by real world experience, particularly a grasp of accounting, ...
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Bradenton Herald
13th Grade: In state community college, a crisis of unprepared freshmen
Bradenton Herald
And students cannot enroll in college classes until they pass all their remedial courses. But Rodicio said offering remedial courses allows Florida colleges to keep their doors open and give all students the opportunity to get a college education. A ...
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News Tribe
Wellesley College joins online education venture
Boston.com
Edx students can't currently earn college credits or degrees through the online classes. But edX president Anant Agarwal, an MIT professor, said Monday it's up to participating schools to decide whether to grant credits. He said the University of Texas ...
Wellesley College teams up with online provider edXBoston Globe
Wellesley to offer MOOCs on edXWashington Post (blog)
Wellesley College to start free online classesNews Tribe
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Wellesley College joins online education venture
Seattle Post Intelligencer
BOSTON (AP) — Anyone with an Internet connection will be able to take free classes at Wellesley College next fall. The women's liberal arts college outside Boston will offer free online classes through the nonprofit venture edX. Harvard University and ...
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