Classes begin February 3, 2025 with tuition set at $118

Yavapai Community College will offer a special landscape drawing class on the Verde Valley Campus starting February 3, 2025. This class is part of the College’s community education program.

The course provides an opportunity to learn how to draw landscapes, “from plains and forests to the red rocks and more.” It will run from February 3 to March 10, with tuition set at $118.

For more details, see the Community College advertisement below.

This is despite spending billions to close gaps with the rest of the world; follows October report showing 2/3 American children not proficient  readers

The results of  an exam proctored by  the Program for International Student Assessment were announced on Tuesday, December 3. They showed  that performance of American teenagers in reading and math has been stagnant since 2000.  Over all, American 15-year-olds who took the PISA test scored slightly above students from peer nations in reading but below the middle of the pack in math.

This report follows one  from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, an American test,  that was reported in October. This test  showed that two-thirds of American children were not proficient readers. Fourth and eighth graders were found to be losing ground in their ability to read literature and academic texts. Two out of three children did not meet the standards for reading proficiency set by the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a test that is administered by the National Center for Education Statistics, the research arm of the Education Department.

Sources:  New York Times articles, Erica L. Green and Dana Goldsteikn,  October 30, 2019, updated December 5, 2019; Dana Goldstein, December 3, 2019 (Updated)•  

Once again, the East side of the County gets the short end of the educational opportunity stick 110 to 25

For years, the Community College has focused on building its Community Education program on the west side of Yavapai County.  The result is that this fall it will offer 110 noncredit courses for adults over there.

Meanwhile, the Sedona Center and the Verde Campus will offer a total of 25.  Camp Verde is left out entirely.  The Blog, of course, has brought this educational inequity to the attention of the public before.  However, the College has continued with its concentration on the west side of Yavapai County.

To compare Community Education offerings go to each of the three sites:  

Community education Verde Valley about 9 classes. Click here.

 Community education Sedona Center about 16.  Click here.

Community education  in Prescott about 110.  Click here.