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GAO Finds Uncertainty, Overlap Among Federal Job Training Programs
A Government Accountability Office report on federally funded employment and training programs, more than half of which serve youth, shows the roughly...
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Training Is Key in Seeking Partners for Summer Jobs Programs
Faced with the reality of no federal funding for summer job programs this year, workforce board directors are focusing on strategies to...
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Helping All of Our Homeless
Helping All of Our Homeless: Developing a Gay and Transgender Inclusive Federal Plan to End Homelessness Center for America Progress This study...
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GAO Says Internal Review Found No Bias in For-Profit Report
The Government Accountability Office said today that an internal review of the need to issue a revised report on recruiting by for-profit...
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Racial Bias in Child Protection?
Racial Bias in Child Protection? A Comparison of Competing Explanations Using National Data Pediatrics The disproportionate number of black children who are...
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Scared Straight Programs Closed in 2 of 3 Series’ States
Critics of the controversial “scared straight” approach had feared that the popular new television show about the strategy might spark a proliferation...
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Federal Judge Asks Holder for Mercy for Florida Woman
A federal appeals court judge has taken the unusual step of appealing directly to Attorney General Eric Holder to overturn a deportation...
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Q&A: Juvenile Judge Irene Sullivan, Part Two
On Wednesday, we ran the first part of Youth Today’s interview with former juvenile judge Irene Sullivan, author of the recently released...
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The Crossover Killer: Excerpt from “Raised by the Courts”
Yesterday, Youth Today printed the first half of our interview with Irene Sullivan, a former Florida juvenile judge and author of the...
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Q&A: Juvenile Judge Irene Sullivan, Part One
In 1998, Irene Sullivan took a seat on the Florida Circuit Court’s Unified Family Court in Pinellas County after two decades in...
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Even Harvard Agrees: Four-Year Colleges Aren’t for Everyone
The one American college perhaps most synonymous with traditional postsecondary ideals has issued a report championing community colleges over four-year schools in...
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For-Profit College Coalition Sues over GAO Report
The Coalition for Educational Success, a group of for-profit colleges that earlier issued a report blasting the methods and findings of a...
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Enrollment at For-Profit Colleges Rose 25 Percent in 2009
College enrollment rose more than 7 percent in the 2009-2010 school year, rising from 19.6 million in the fall of 2008 to...
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Four Fund Teach for America $100 Million Endowment
Teach for America (TFA), the national corps of recent college graduate K-12 teachers placed in needy areas, will set up a $100...
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Piling It On
National Consumer Law Center Students planning to attend for-profit colleges are finding it easier to borrow money from the institution itself to...
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Forms and Finances
It’s crunch time for student financial aid assistance centers as thousands of volunteer and paid financial aid experts work with first-generation, low-income...
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‘Gainful Employment’ Battle Rages On
Amid of flurry of legal actions and ad campaigns seeking elimination or softening/toughening and quick enforcement of the Department of Education’s proposed...
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Minnesota Advocates Push for Changes to Public Access on Juvenile Records
Supporters and families of ex-offenders in Minnesota will use an organized advocacy campaign today in part to push for more accuracyin public...
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Proposed Profiles Set New Way to Define Degrees
A new “degree profile” that proposes standards of critical thinking and knowledge that should be associated with earning associate, bachelor’s and master’s...
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Revised Gainful Employment Rule Due in “Early Part” of 2011
The U.S. Department of Education will release final changes to the so-called gainful employment rule affecting for-profit colleges in the “early part...
