Great piece in the NYT today showing that more young women are enrolled in college than are in the workforce. Many reasons for this including the economic, cultural, and other factors. I’ve definitely seen a trend toward women-majority classes. When you consider that college enrollment growth over the last year has been mainly attributed to…
According to a recent study by Regina Deil-Amen at the Center for the Study of Higher Education, University of Arizona, and Stefanie DeLuca, a sociologist at Hopkins, students graduating from high school are not ready to enter college and/or the workforce. The authors argue that many high school students are graduating from high school lacking…
Jared Bernstein at On the Economy explains health care is the current and future economic engine. Check out this graph via On the Economy: Given the health care needs of Latinos in coming decades, all you aspiring Latino health care workers – you have your marching orders…
Council of the Great City Schools just released a study which outlines the many challenges facing Latinos educationally. Latinos lag behind Whites in most areas of education including college attainment: In postsecondary experience, the unemployment rate of the Hispanic population ages 20 and older in early 2011 was 12 percent compared with 8 percent of…
This is a great study by Stanford University’s Center for Education Policy Analysis regarding academic achievement and family income. The results shed additional light on the impact of parental income and student achievement. Interesting stuff. Finally, the growing income achievement gap does not appear to be a result of a growing achievement gap between children…
Cultural training for teachers? A good idea given the socio-economic differences between students and teachers in many urban areas around the country: Cultural competency” training is designed to give teachers techniques and strategies that can help them not only reach minority students but also capitalize on cultural diversity in the classroom. At its core, cultural…
I’m always fascinated about why some communities make an effort to incorporate immigrants into their society while others do not, especially in education. The Toledo Public School District in Ohio, for example, is working with New Mexico Highlands University to provide Latino high school students the opportunity to attend college in other states; and the…
If you’ve not yet read The Tipping Point (non-affiliate link), you should. It’s a book about change. Malcom Gladwell offers a different approach about comprehending change, and why it seems to occur as quickly as it does. One premise of his book is that change occurs all at once, and the smallest shift, can be…
Judith Scott-Clayton argues that college is not as expensive as it’s thought to be. I’m in the process of buying a car – wish the same would hold true for car sticker prices: What has been buried in much of the resulting coverage is that while colleges’ published tuition and fees have indeed increased, these…
I’ve been trying to get ahead on some projects this week in anticipation of the 2011 LATISM Conference next week in Chicago. As is the norm when I get too busy, you get a menudo of links. Enjoy! Marginal Revolution weighs in on why college students should be very careful about the majors they pick…
