CT Mirror - Lawmakers to colleges: no more semesters of remediation (May 9, 2012) - A quarter of the students who enter a public college in Connecticut spend their first year taking only non-credit remedial courses. Some even spend two years...

Community College Times - Cleveland joins 10,000 Small Businesses Initiative (May 9, 2012) - Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C) in Cleveland, Ohio, is the latest two-year college to be chosen to join the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses initiative, which combines business education opportunities, support services and access to capital to local small businesses looking to expand...

Inside Higher Ed - What Will $10,000 Get Me? (May 9, 2012) - $10,000 may not be able to buy as much as it used to, but Texas politicians and higher education administrators think that with a little experimentation it can buy a pretty good bachelor's degree...

Community College Times - New job training program for veterans begins July 1 (May 9, 2012) - The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is seeking help from community colleges to make military veterans aware of new job training benefits available to them...

Inside Higher Ed - Remediation for Remedial Math (May 9, 2012) -Too many students are failing their remedial math classes, and those who succeed often have little use for the advanced algebra on which those classes focus...

Inside Higher Ed - Online Classes. Low Prices. Every Day. (May 8, 2012) - When something sounds too good to be true, you check it out. So Jeana Murphy and Henry Jordan did some sleuthing when their employer, Walmart, offered to pick up part of the tab for degrees from an online university that offers flexible hours, relatively cheap tuition and college credit for on-the-job training and experience...

Inside Higher Ed - Pass and Go (May 8, 2012) - Students at California community colleges may no longer be able to repeat courses they have already passed, if a new proposal aimed at physical education and arts classes is adopted...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - At a Community College in Arizona, Interns Survey the Local Economy (May 6, 2012) - A recession makes small cities and towns want to retain their businesses and colleges try to equip their students for employment. Estrella Mountain Community College, near Phoenix, is trying to do both at the same time...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - The Ph.D. Now Comes With Food Stamps (May 6, 2012) - "I am not a welfare queen," says Melissa Bruninga-Matteau. That's how she feels compelled to start a conversation about how she, a white woman with a Ph.D. in medieval history and an adjunct professor, came to rely on food stamps and Medicaid. Ms. Bruninga-Matteau, a 43-year-old single mother who teaches two humanities courses at Yavapai College...

Community College Times - Community colleges have a major role in global prosperity (May 4, 2012) - The U.S. government wants to increase international education initiatives, and community colleges have a significant role to play in those efforts, U.S. government leaders told foreign education officials...

Record-Journal - Society's Not Ready for 'Tsunami' of Cases, Autism Activists Caution (May 3, 2012) - Record-Journal staff Monica Trischitti knew there was something amiss when her 4-year-old son, Anthony, -would play alongside other children instead of with them...

Yahoo News - By the numbers: Student loans and the interest rate debate (infographic) (May 9, 2012) - Senate Republicans blocked a vote Tuesday on a bill that would have extended the current low 3.4 percent interest rate on Stafford student loans, taking issue with how the Democratic bill would fund the extension. If Congress fails to pass such an extension by July, the rates will double...

Inside Higher Ed - The New Politics of Student Debt (May 3, 2012) -These days, Robert Applebaum is feeling vindicated. In January 2009, Applebaum, then a 35-year-old lawyer with more than $80,000 in student debt, created a petition calling for student loan forgiveness to stimulate the economy. It was greeted with a few weeks of buzz and plenty of scorn. Then, for more than two years, silence...

Board of Regents - Connecticut Community College Students Honored at the State Capitol (May 2, 2012) - Ten Connecticut Community College students and one student from Goodwin College were honored at the 2012 All-Connecticut Academic Team awards ceremony at the State Capitol on Friday, April 27, 2012. The All-Connecticut Academic Team recognizes the outstanding academic and leadership accomplishments of students enrolled in Connecticut's Community and Junior Colleges...

CT Mirror - Education reform bill, praised as good step, clears legislature (May 8, 2012) - Legislators agree: The education reform bill they unanimously approved Tuesday is a step, one of several that will be needed to provide a better education for the lowest-performing students...

CT Mirror - Malloy talks tenure (again) (May 8, 2012) - Gov. Dannel P. Malloy took to the radio airwaves in New York Tuesday to celebrate the changes to the education system and teacher tenure he has won in the education bill making its way through the Connecticut legislature...

CT Mirror - Senate debate offers two visions of state's fiscal future (May 8, 2012) - As the Senate voted 22-13 to give final approval late Tuesday to a revised $20.5 billion budget for next year, there was bipartisan agreement that state finances were on the cusp of a major change. But while Democrats said the package would close small deficits and preserve vital services until the economy rebounds in the near future...

Inside Higher Ed - Some Students Need to Fail (May 10, 2012) - I remember how bad I felt when I assigned my first F. The night before I turned in my grades, I could barely sleep; I kept tossing and turning, worrying about the student who was about to fail...

Hartford Courant - Senate Approves Education Reform Bill About 3:45 a.m. (May 8, 2012) - The state Senate approved a wide-ranging education reform bill about 3:45 a.m. Tuesday by a vote of 28-7, after more than two hours of debate in which Republicans protested majority Democrats' last-minute production of the measure for an immediate vote...

Inside Higher Ed - Adjuncts on Food Stamps (May 8, 2012) - If you haven't seen this article yet, go read it. I'd advise skipping some of the comments -- they're about as enlightening as internet comments on polarizing issues tend to be - but the story itself is really disturbing....

Community College Times - Evaluating practices for increased students success (May 7, 2012) - Try this: Search Google for "best educational practices." That search will yield nearly 31.5 million hits in less than half a second. That's a tremendous amount of information for any interested practitioner to wade through...