For-Profit Educator In Trouble Over Misleading Success Data

As reported on National Public Radio, Career Education Corporation is in hot water because of misleading information it has stated about job placement rates for its students.
http://www.npr.org/2011/11/07/142111407/for-profit-education-provider-faces-trouble
Career Education Corportion is an international for-profit education provider with about 90 campuses located throughout the United States and in France, Canada, Italy and the United Kingdom and three fully-online academic programs.
http://www.careered.com/

Technology To Improve Student Success At Central Piedmont Community College

In an innovative move, Central Piedmont Community College connects with its students to increase their chances for success.  As reported in the Chronicle of Higher Education the,"Online Student Portal learning system, a Web site, assesses the learning styles of at-risk students (whether they learn best through reading, hearing, or hands-on work) and helps them understand how their personality traits might connect to study and career choices. It also provides a ready link to college counselors and instructors, allowing them to send so-called "early alerts" if a student starts having trouble in a class. And it carries a record of these interactions from term to term, so students and advisers can easily see where students have been—and where they're going."  Note: Access to this article from off campus requires user authentication.
http://chronicle.com/article/7-Community-Colleges-Try-an/129605/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

New Jersey's Lost Decade -- Local Economic Decline Felt Most by Middle and Lower Income Groups

As reported by New Jersey Policy Perspective, "New Jersey real incomes were lower in 2010 than in 2007 for most households. Only high-income households were better off. Unemployment was at its highest rate in 35 years, and the number of children living in poverty increased by 16 percent in just two years."
What happened? Where did the income gains come from and where did they go? This is the focus of The State of Working New Jersey 2011: The Lost Decade:
http://www.njpp.org/reports/the-state-of-working-new-jersey-2011-the-lost-decade