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Community Colleges Call For Better Documentation of Worker Outcomes
March 16, 2010Community colleges are playing a pivotal role in America's economic recovery as they help out-of-work Americans train for new jobs, but they are hampered in knowing the best kinds of training to provide and how it ultimately works for students by a lack of complete data and full access to that data, according to a new policy brief issued today by the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC). "Federal legislation makes assumptions about the linkages between education and workforce outcomes, and the data needed to document those outcomes," said Dr. George R. Boggs, president of AACC. Full release.