269. 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. Read The Joe Rottenborn Daily ▸ today's top stories via @rottenbornj ▸ http://t.co/UftEiOc

2. Our view: Charter school debate overlooks lessons learned - http://usat.ly/miWolo via @USATODAY - "In the debate over how to improve the nation's educational system, there is typically no middle ground on the value of charter schools. You're either for them or against them. But in their fervor, both sides are missing a more fundamental question: Which charters work, and why?"

3. Opposing view: Rethink the charter experiment, by Richard D. Kahlenberg - http://usat.ly/kGQ22Y via @USATODAY - "After two decades, it's time to fundamentally rethink the charter school experiment. The prevailing charter model isn't working because it is based on two profoundly flawed ideas: that teachers' unions are the biggest problem in education; and that packing poor kids into separate, high-poverty charter schools will produce educational success."

4. District Dossier: Clinton to Charters: 'Keep This Country in the Change Business,' by Mary Ann Zehr - http://t.co/PfbZcDL - "Peter C. Groff, the president and chief executive officer of the alliance, called Clinton an "early champion of charter schools" and "instrumental" to their growth. He observed that Clinton had created in 1994 the federal Charter Schools Program, which is now a $256 million program, to help finance such schools. Over Clinton's presidency, the number of charter schools grew from one in 1992 to 2,000, he said.Now the United States has 5,277 charter schools, which make up 5.4 percent of all public schools, according to the alliance."

5. Many From A-Rated N.Y.C. Schools Need Help at CUNY, by Anna M. Phillips and Robert Gebeloff - http://nyti.ms/mBTNMI - "Of the 70 high schools that earned an “A” on the most recent city progress report and have at least one-third of graduates attending a college of the City University of New York, 46 posted remediation rates above 50 percent, according to reports sent to the city’s high schools."

6. Counseling in an ‘Error-Averse’ Culture, by Eric Hoover - http://chronicle.com/blogs/headcount/28410/28410 - "Over the last two days here at the annual conference of the Association of College Counselors in Independent Schools, I’ve heard tales of parents threatening to sue schools after their child didn’t get into a selective college. I heard another about a student who publicly blamed her counselor after being denied by her dream school. And I heard one counselor say this: “I spend more of my time counseling parents.”

7. Admissions and the Adolescent Brain, by Eric Hoover - http://chronicle.com/blogs/headcount/admissions-and-the-adolescent-brain/28400 - "In other words, helping a teenager apply to college is not only an admissions issue—it’s also a developmental issue. As such, there’s much room for teaching. Guilt and punishment typically won’t help a teenager remember to turn in his application materials on time, Ms. Deak said, but helping him develop a plan for remembering to meet such deadlines just might."

8. An Expensive Education: Top 10 Priciest Prep Schools, by Tim Newcomb - http://t.co/KWhhbEm via @TIMENewsFeed - "And you thought spending over $30,000 per year for an Ivy League education was a hefty bill. Private schools throughout the East Coast make Ivy League price tags look like bargains, easily topping $30,000 per year and even passing the $40,000 threshold. And that is just the day-school tuition, which doesn’t touch how high room and board rates soar, sometimes adding as much as $10,000 to the bill."