Education Nation: “A Matter of Degrees: Measuring the Value of Higher Ed”
By CCA
September 28, 2011
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This week, Complete College America President Stan Jones was part of a four-person panel moderated by NBC's Andrea Mitchell at the 2011 Education Nation Summit in New York. The panel discussed Complete College America's new report, "Time is the Enemy," which provides – for the first time ever – a comprehensive picture of today’s college student, the challenges students face and the reasons why they are not completing their degrees and certificates.
The report includes self-reported data from 33 states on both full-time and part-time students at public colleges and universities. The federal government currently requires colleges and universities to track first-time, full-time students, but 40 percent of students today attend part-time.
Watch video of the discussion and let us know what you think about our groundbreaking new report.
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Amy Lines Maryland
September 29, 2011
My daughter graduated from college with a degree in music. She is employed as a teacher’s aid working in a Title 1 school and earns $15,000 per year. She has a passion for teaching and working with elementary children. She dearly wants to be a teacher. She took the Praxis and passed both sections and took the recommended courses to become certified and then she was told she could not teach unless she student teaches. At this point, no college will allow her to student teach because she is not enrolled even though she has worked with students for five years. With such a limited income, she can’t afford to to go back to school full time or even part-time. There are no scholarships available to her. As a retired teacher myself, I am so frustrated because I know she would be such an excellent teacher.
What can be done? Please, any suggestions would be so greatly appreciated.
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