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Community colleges' learning disability
Mark Schneider, Lu Michelle Yin | Los Angeles Times
April 12, 2012

Community colleges are subsidized through direct state and local government appropriations and through student grant programs. Every student who drops out represents an investment loss by the taxpayers in that student's uncompleted education.

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High Cost of Low Community College Graduation Rates
Mark Schneider, Lu Michelle Yin
April 03, 2012

AEI education expert Mark Schneider and Lu Michelle Yin explore the harmful consequences of low community college graduation rates and propose policy solutions in the latest edition of Education Outlook.

Education / Higher Education / Community Colleges
Completion matters: the high cost of low community college graduation rates
Mark Schneider, Lu Michelle Yin | American Enterprise Institute
April 03, 2012

An ever-increasing number of individuals are turning to community college for their higher education. Online delivery of classes and competency-based models of higher learning should be employed and innovations from for-profit schools should be borrowed to increase the number of Americans completing their associate’s degrees.

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Squaring the circle: General Raymond T. Odierno on American military strategy in a time of declining resources

AEI’s Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies will host General Raymond Odierno, chief of staff of the US Army, for the second installment of a series of four events with each member of the Joint Chiefs.

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The Trans-Pacific Partnership and 21st Century Trade Agreements

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