Wednesday, September 04, 2013

"A System of Higher Education that Is So Broken for So Many"

"That’s bad news for the Bay Area and California, bad news for the nation, and especially bad news for the working class. With nine out of the top ten skilled job openings in the next decade in California alone expected to require a post-secondary credential of some sort, the failure of the community colleges in a region otherwise characterized by booming growth will levy a major blow not only to the economy, but also to the very notion of upward mobility in this country."

In the Washington Monthly, Haley Sweetland Edwards claims that the San Francisco Bay Areas has "America's Worst Community Colleges."

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