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To renew America's status as the world's leader in college attainment, the federal government needs to transform America's community colleges and equip them for the 21st century. This long-overdue investment should establish national goals and a related performance measurement system; provide resources to drive college performance toward those goals; stimulate greater innovation in community college policies and practices to enhance the quality of subbaccalaureate education; and support data systems to track student and institutional progress and performance.
Transforming America's Community Colleges: A Federal Policy Proposal To Expand Opportunity and Promote Economic Prosperity
Union Strategies for Hard Times
by Bill Barry
What can unions do as the Great Recession ravages workers and their unions and threatens to destroy decades of collective bargaining gains? What must local union leaders do to help their laid-off members, protect those still working, and prevent the gutting of their hard-fought contracts – and their very unions themselves? How, in fact, can local union leaders seize the time and turn crisis into opportunity?
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