WASHINGTON – U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced this week that the Justice Department will expand to 10 – from six –...
An allegation of maltreatment, regardless of whether it is ever substantiated, is the strongest signal of a potential for a young child...
President Barack Obama will announce Wednesday that beginning in January students who take out federal college loans will be able to repay...
The nomination of Wendy Spencer, head of Volunteer Florida which serves as the state’s commission for AmeriCorps and a longtime Republican, to...
A comprehensive new Elementary and Secondary Education Act draft, filed today by Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Tom Harkin...
A new audit by the Labor Department’s Inspector General accuses its Job Corps program of doing exactly what the Education Department accuses...
House Republicans’ plan to defund all of the health reform provisions for fiscal 2012 would eliminate or drastically reduce two programs aimed...
Almost $500 million in grants to increase graduation rates and provide new job-specific community college programs targeted at unemployed workers were announced...
Low-income families are able to purchase broadband service for $9.95 a month from Comcast, under a new program that was launched in...
The overall two-year default rates of students with federal student loans rose to 8.8 percent last year, from 7 percent a year...
What American news outlet hasn’t carried a heart-wrenching picture of a 5- or 6-year old sobbing uncontrollably as the father or mother...
It won’t give any illegal immigrants a new passage to U.S. citizenship, but the Obama administration announced today that it will stop...
The latest annual edition of Volunteering in America, released today, shows a slight decrease in the number of people volunteering and the...
The latest annual edition of Volunteering in America, released today, shows a slight decrease in the number of people volunteering and the...
Update: Education Sector has just added all of the data used to determine the debt-to-degree ratio for almost 5,000 schools and programs....
The steady rise of college costs and the mounds of debt students are shouldering to pay those costs has given rise to...
The agreement reached Sunday night among Democratic and Republican leaders in the House and Senate provides specific funding for Pell Grants, but...
The agreement reached Sunday night among Democratic and Republican leaders in the House and Senate provides specific funding for Pell Grants, but...
Supporters of Pell Grants for low-income college students put out an urgent appeal to mobilize students to blitz their congressional representatives for...
At least $4.46 million was spent lobbying on federal student loan issues over the second quarter of the year – mostly in...