Community colleges' learning disability [View all]

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AEI. Mostly so I can point out how this silly shit equates education with the efficient production of AA degrees, i.e. the efficient production of a pre-determined "product" rather than providing of a service to autonomous citizens because they are entitled to the means to an education to use as THEY see fit. In other words, he assumes the conclusion he purports to prove.

Community colleges are central to the nation's higher education system, enrolling almost 30% of all postsecondary students. But their record of success is spotty.

Nationally, only about a quarter of full-time community college students complete their studies within three years (the official measure of a school's graduation rate).

At more than a third of California's community colleges, graduation rates are 20% or less. Of the full-time, degree-seeking students who entered California community colleges in 2007, more than 35,000 had not earned their degrees three years later, and most of them were no longer enrolled in any postsecondary institution.

This happens year after year after year, and it's not only the dropouts who are harmed. When students fail to complete their degrees, taxpayers also lose.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-schneider-community-college-graduation-rates-20120411,0,2732111.story