The high school graduation rate for African-American males was just 47 percent in 2007-08, far below the 78 percent rate for white...
With President Obama’s Promise Neighborhoods Initiative (PNI) generating enormous excitement – 339 applications were filed in June for just 20 grants –...
Some 81 million young people around the world were unemployed last year, accounting for 13 percent of people aged 15 to 24,...
College loan repayment data released late Friday by the U.S. Department of Education show that some of the largest proprietary colleges face...
The U.S. Department of Education will hire 60 more investigators and increase the number of investigations by 50 percent, partly in response...
Ronald “Looney” Barron, a Los Angeles gang intervention worker killed in February when he interrupted a youth “tagging” a restaurant wall, is...
Some Colleges and Universities Do Better Than Others in Graduating Hispanic Students The Education Trust As the fastest growing minority in America,...
Steve Pearlstein of The Washington Post explores what’s good about the for-profit college business model and how it challenges traditional educational institutions. ...
A pilot public service campaign aimed at signing up more children and youths in seven states for federal health insurance is being...
New York City is sending reports to its high schools telling them how many of their students who arrived at the city’s...
Assistant Secretary for Children and Families Carmen Nazario resigned on July 19 from the top job at the Administration for Children and...
Some of the nation’s most prominent for-profit colleges have announced changes in their recruitment practices in the wake of a scathing congressional...
The U.S. Senate passed a new $4.5 billion Child Nutrition bill Thursday, approving it by unanimous consent, a procedure that does not...
A new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study shows youths 18 to 24 who smoke cigarettes are more likely to use...
Michelle Obama has pleaded with the U.S. Congress (in a Washington Post opinion piece). Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) has pleaded with her...
Six of the 13 people awarded Citizens Medals for 2010 by President Barack Obama today are veteran youth workers. The selections were...
Some of the biggest names in the for-profit college education business – University of Phoenix, Kaplan College and Westwood College among them...
Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) sites across the country are failing to reach a large majority of children in rural areas, according...
A committee tasked with assessing the impact of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act will hold its first public meeting starting...
An undercover investigation of for-profit colleges by the Government Accountability Office found that representatives of four of the 15 colleges surveyed enticed...