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Does Free College Work? Kalamazoo Offers Some Answers
Wall Street Journal ^
| June 28, 2019
| Josh Mitchell and Michelle Hackman
Posted on 06/29/2019 5:19:54 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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To: dsrtsage
Not a violent guy, but I would love to get my hands on the inventor of the iphone keypad and take him to the woodshed. I am somewhat of a spelling nazi, but I almost never see mistakes on the iphone until immediately after I press post. LOL; I was pretty sure that was the case!
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posted on
06/29/2019 7:28:05 AM PDT
by
Mr Ramsbotham
("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
To: stylin19a
"so, the short answer to the headline question is...no?"
Here you go ...
Does Free College Work? Kalamazoo Offers Some Answers
Most times you can get "behind" a paywall like WSJ by searching on the whole title and find a match from some other news site. Just FYI.
We FReepers like to help out our Noobs wherever we can. ;-)
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posted on
06/29/2019 7:48:25 AM PDT
by
Tunehead54
(Nothing funny here ;-)
To: reaganaut1
Quote from the article (emphasis mine):
Its like an onion, said Brad Hershbein of the Upjohn Institute. You take away the outer layerfinancial need. Once thats gone you see these other layers, or barriers, are left. The inner layers are problems you wouldnt have known are a big issue.Among them are high rates of single-parent households, teen pregnancy and homelessness.
How brain dead does someone have to be to not recognize that broken homes and teen pregnancy is a problem in being successful?
To: New Jersey Realist
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Anyone receiving welfare should be required to provide a service back to the American taxpayer unless they are physically unable because of a birth defect or an act of God. --
Even less demanding, "welfare or vote, pick one." That would cure the giveaway problem, who would vote for it?
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posted on
06/29/2019 7:59:21 AM PDT
by
Cboldt
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks reaganaut1. "Kalamazoo" and "Promise" don't belong in the same sentence, unless one is constructing an oxymoron. BTW, "Oozamalak" is Kalamazoo backwards, and the pr. is easy to figure out.
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posted on
06/29/2019 8:42:18 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Cboldt
Michigan has required all welfare clients to participate in job seeking for a long, long time. Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day, teach a man to fish, and he'll never use the skill, because he knows he can go back to eating for free for one more day.
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posted on
06/29/2019 8:45:48 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Tunehead54
you are ! (in response to your tagline related to your post to me)
thanks for the article. The websites are making "outline.com" already obsolete.
Since the program took effect in June 2006, they have paid $124 million in tuition subsidies for 5,735 students, according to its administrators.
(Doesn't seem like many students over the 14 year life of the program..If subsidized over 4 years, is the student counted once or 4 times ? )
not much in the way of success stats related to those numbers?
especially in light of the low requirements below?
Students who accept the aid must maintain at least a 2.0 grade in three-quarters of classes to continue to receive the subsidy; they’re not obligated to serve the city or live there after their college years.
even the anecdotal success stories really aren't success stories.
I'm still guessing "NO".
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posted on
06/29/2019 8:49:55 AM PDT
by
stylin19a
(2016 - Best.Election.Of.All.Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
To: reaganaut1
WE ALREADY KNOW HOW THE US GOVERNMENT DOES EDUCATION - LOOK AT K - 12 public schools.
Over time - ‘free education would become K - 16. That’s how a government committee and teacher’s unions would re-create Universities - - over time.
How do we know?
Because we’ve seen their handiwork....
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posted on
06/29/2019 8:50:58 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(How did the illegal community become the number one constituency of the Democrat Party? - - Rush L.)
To: cnsmom
re: “High school grades are not a good way to predict college success. Everyone learns how to cheat in high school.”
It matter the courses taken, too. Like advanced math courses, the science courses ...
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posted on
06/29/2019 9:02:42 AM PDT
by
_Jim
(Save babies)
To: reaganaut1
Free college will become like free high school.
Daytime child warehousing and indoctrination.
Back in the 40s and 50s, we had kids graduating junior high/middle school with better educations than kids graduating high school today.
Quantity or quality.
Can’t have both.
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posted on
06/29/2019 9:37:45 AM PDT
by
Grimmy
(equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
To: reaganaut1
Free college doesn’t make up for kids who can’t read because they were failed K-12.
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posted on
06/29/2019 11:12:31 AM PDT
by
tbw2
To: Cboldt
welfare or vote, pick one.
* * *
I like that idea. It’s pretty elementary to curtailing legal plunder... as promoted by the DemocRATS.
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