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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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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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Oh, you want to be an artist? Know what else starts with the letter "A"? (Accountant)

By Melissa Burns Whether you are just starting out at college or are going to graduate this year, you should think carefully about what your future career is going to be. But probably not too carefully – we don’t live in the age of static jobs, so even if you make a wrong choice today, …

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