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Does performance funding increase college completion? No.

State Higher Education Performance Funding for Community Colleges: Diverse Effects and Policy Implications by David A. Tandberg, Nicholas Hillman & Mohamed Barakat Performance-based funding programs have become a popular state policy strategy for increasing college completions, among other things. This study asks, To what extent does the introduction of performance funding programs impact two-year degree …

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Character Interview: Hattie Davish, A March to Remember

Traveling secretary Hattie Davish is taking her singular talents to Washington, D.C., to help Sir Arthur Windom-Greene research his next book. But in the winding halls of the nation’s capital, searching for the truth can sometimes lead to murder.  Hattie is in her element, digging through dusty basements, attics, and abandoned buildings, not to be …

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Limited time featured #giveaway: The Case of the Defunct Adjunct

>>>The Case of the Defunct Adjunct featured on Instafreebie for one week only<<< “Follow your dreams, and you’ll never work a day in your life. Because that field’s not hiring.” Molly Barda earned her Ph.D. in literature and creative writing from a top-ten doctoral program. After a year of fruitless job-hunting, she finally landed a …

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Author Interview and #Giveaway: LynDee Walker, Lethal Lifestyles

>>Enter to win a $20 gift card AND a swag pack! <<< Wedding bells are ringing at the Richmond Telegraph, and maid of honor Nichelle Clarke is determined to give her friends the perfect fairytale beginning to their happily ever after. So when a corpse crashes rehearsal weekend, Nichelle ditches her wedding coordinator shoes for …

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Guest Post/intercepted email: The Book Club Murders by Leslie Nagel

In a charming cozy mystery series debut, Leslie Nagel’s irrepressible small-town heroine finds that her fellow mystery bookclub members may be taking their Agatha Christie a bit too literally—and murder a bit too lightly. Charley Carpenter has poured heart and soul into her clothing store, Old Hat Vintage Fashions. She’ll do anything to make it …

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Are Elite College Courses Better?

– The public — and heck, many people in higher education — widely assume prestigious colleges and universities provide the best quality education. That’s why employers often want to hire their graduates and why many parents want their children to attend them.
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And the assumption partially explains the fascination from the media and others in recent years with massive open online courses from Harvard and Stanford and other elite universities: the courses were believed, rightly or wrongly, to be of higher quality than all other online courses precisely because they came from name-brand institutions.
But what if the richest and best-known colleges and universities don’t provide the highest-quality education?
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