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The Massachusetts Community College Performance-based Funding Formula: A New...
The Massachusetts community college system is entering a second year with funding for each of its 15 schools determined using a new performance-based formula. Under the new model, 50% of each college’s...
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To Close Middle-Skills Gap, Improve Community College Outcomes
Over the past four years, there has been intense talk about the middle-skills gap in New England. In Massachusetts—from the governor, often flanked by business leaders, to the commissioner of higher...
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View the Middle-Skills Gap Through a Competitiveness Lens
It’s not every day that one finds Harvard Business School (HBS) advocating for community and technical colleges. Adding its own voice to an increasingly loud refrain on the country’s "middle-skills"...
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Cyber-Gap
Within the information technology sector, cybersecurity is considered its own supersector. As information becomes increasingly digitized and a growing array of transactions can be completed in the...
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How Obama’s Tuition-Free Community College Plan Would Affect One State
President Obama started off the year with a proposal to make a community college education as “universal” as high school by making the associate degree or first two years of a bachelor’s degree...
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Reducing Math Obstacles to Higher Education
The last few months have brought changes in the leadership of public education in Massachusetts. The new secretary of education and chair of the Board of Higher Education both have deep expertise in...
View ArticleThe Massachusetts Community College Performance-based Funding Formula: A New...
The Massachusetts community college system is entering a second year with funding for each of its 15 schools determined using a new performance-based formula. Under the new model, 50% of each college’s...
View ArticleTo Close Middle-Skills Gap, Improve Community College Outcomes
Over the past four years, there has been intense talk about the middle-skills gap in New England. In Massachusetts—from the governor, often flanked by business leaders, to the commissioner of higher...
View ArticleView the Middle-Skills Gap Through a Competitiveness Lens
It’s not every day that one finds Harvard Business School (HBS) advocating for community and technical colleges. Adding its own voice to an increasingly loud refrain on the country’s “middle-skills”...
View ArticleCyber-Gap
Within the information technology sector, cybersecurity is considered its own supersector. As information becomes increasingly digitized and a growing array of transactions can be completed in the...
View ArticleHow Obama’s Tuition-Free Community College Plan Would Affect One State
President Obama started off the year with a proposal to make a community college education as “universal” as high school by making the associate degree or first two years of a bachelor’s degree...
View ArticleReducing Math Obstacles to Higher Education
The last few months have brought changes in the leadership of public education in Massachusetts. The new secretary of education and chair of the Board of Higher Education both have deep expertise in...
View ArticleCollege Completion and the Future of Work: Implications in the Fourth...
College completion matters, especially from the perspective of equity. Who finishes, how long it takes them, how much they benefit economically and how their citizenship benefits local communities all...
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