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No Federal Funds in Sight for Summer Jobs

With 2009 federal Recovery Act funding for summer jobs used up and no word yet on whether some states might be able...

What Are Business Leaders Saying about Workforce Readiness?

What Are Business Leaders Saying about Workforce Readiness? Corporate Voices for Working Families The vast majority of America’s business leaders believe investing...

Survey Shows How Jobless Youth are Adjusting

With youth unemployment still near record highs, unemployed teens and young adults appear to be reacting to their situation much as their...

With No Government Regulations, Online High Schools Can Be Costly Pursuits

By Mc Nelly Torres Florida Center for Investigative Reporting Rodolfo M. Rodriguez, a 24-year-old cashier at a gas station in Davie,...

The National Teen Jobs Crisis: Alternative Policies to Boost In High School Employment and Improve the Early School-to-Work Transition

Over the recent Thanksgiving holiday period, both President Obama and Austin Scott, the newly-elected U.S. Representative from Georgia, took to the air...

Subprime Opportunity: The Unfulfilled Promise of For-Profit Colleges and Universities

Only 22 percent of first-time, full-time students at for-profit schools received their degree within six years, compared to 55 percent of similar...

Weekly Notes: WIA reauthorization prognosis; Community colleges report

Weekly Notes, Week of 11/15/10 Now that the election is over, the focus in education and workforce policy is squarely on legislative...

The National Teen Jobs Crisis Revisited: Taking Stock of Its Dimensions

While the recent release of the national October 2010 payroll jobs numbers provided further evidence of a recovery in private sector jobs,...

Forging Partnership with For-Profit College, Walmart Chooses Carefully

In 2008, Walmart started looking for a way to connect its employees with affordable and practical college opportunities. American Public Education, Inc.,...

Education Department Hears from Small For-Profits On New Regs

The Department of Education’s public meetings on the gainful employment rule Thursday provided a pedestal for numerous, and repetitive, arguments on yet-to-be...

Expanding Career Readiness Through Online Learning

A quick summary of how online learning, mostly in career and technical education, can be used to improve academic and employability skills....

Community Colleges in Demand

At Bunker Hill Community College, fall enrollment broke another record, topping 12,000 students. To accommodate so many students, the Boston school now...

The Case for New, Year-Round Job Creation Strategies

By Andrew Sum and Ishwar Khatiwada During early September, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its findings on the state of...

White House Hosts Community College Summit

President Barack Obama on Tuesday ripped into what he said are Republican plans to trim funding for education by 20 percent to...

The Power of the Education-Industry Partnership

The Power of the Education-Industry Partnership: Fostering Innovation in Collaboration Between Community Colleges and Businesses The Center for American Progress Collaboration between...

Pathways Out of Poverty for Vulnerable Californians

PolicyLink On the same day the White House hosts a summit on community colleges, PolicyLink – a research group that advocates for...

No Summer Recovery for U.S. Teens: A New Record Low Employment Rate in the Summer of 2010

The labor market problems of U.S. workers intensified substantially during the so-called Great Recession of 2007-2009, and the labor market recovery has...

After-School Jobs

www.AfterschoolPathfinder.org After-School Corp.’s Pathfinder serves as a networking tool for various audiences. Job-seekers can upload their resumes, obtain personalized learning plans, and...