Change In Formula May Help Community Colleges Improve Completion Rates

Scorned for the abysmally low number of their students who earn degrees, the nation’s community colleges may be about to more than double their graduation rates — not by turning out a single additional graduate but by changing the way the rates are calculated. The paperwork change would revise the formula for determining community college graduation rates to include the large number of students who transfer to other schools after having completed at least 30 credits at a community college.That alone would raise completion rates to 40 percent. Read more at:
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