259. Review of College News

Here are some links to today's stories about

college access and success.
by
Joe Rottenborn
Executive Director, Mahoning Valley College Access Program (MVCAP)

1. Minority kids spend most of their waking hours plugged in, by Mary Brophy Marcus - USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/k0H7sd - "Among 8- to 18-year-olds, Asian Americans logged the most media use (13 hours, 13 minutes a day), followed by Hispanics (13 hours), blacks (12 hours, 59 minutes), and whites (8 hours, 36 minutes.)"

2. Another Round, by Libby A. Nelson - Inside Higher Ed: http://bit.ly/m5ugDp - "This hearing, 'Drowning in Debt: Financial Outcomes of Students at For-Profit Colleges,' the fifth from Senator Tom Harkin’s committee, focused on the debt that students at for-profit colleges accumulate and how frequently they default on loans."

3. School Network Readies Students for College and Career, by Catherine Gewertz - http://t.co/PKBCm7Q via @educationweek - “We want to make sure that everyone is college- and career-ready, that we don’t end up with a blue-collar track and a college-prep track,” says John Snavely, the superintendent of the 13,000-student Porterville Unified School District, which has developed nine career pathways at five of its high schools here."

4. Popularity Offers Challenges for Community Colleges, by Caralee J. Adams - http://t.co/swsIdXa via @educationweek - "More students than ever are going to community colleges—and their numbers account for nearly half of all the college undergraduates in the country."

5. College Bound: Democratic Senators Rail About Debt Load of For-Profit Students, by Caralee Adams - http://t.co/TPtkZkM - "What does it say to you, Madame Secretary, that after the rules were published last week, stock prices of these larger, for-profit schools soared?"

6. At New York’s Private Schools, a Tutor for Every Class, by Jenny Anderson - http://nyti.ms/jUfvFZ - “There’s no family that gets through private school without an SAT tutor,” said Sandy Bass, the mother of two former Riverdale students and the founder of the newsletter Private School Insider. “Increasingly, it’s impossible to get through private school without at least one subject tutor.”