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The Case to Fund the Promise Neighborhoods Experiment

With Congress slashing President Obama’s Promise Neighborhood Initiative, the author of a book about the program on which that initiative is based,...

Teach for America Grows, but How Much Does it Help?

Teach for America is growing fast, and will grow even more thanks to winning a $50 million federal grant this month. But...

Smoking in Top-Grossing Movies – United States, 1991-2009

There’s less smoking in the movies but youth still see an awful lot, according to the latest issue of the CDC’s Morbidity...

Heat Illness Among High School Athletes – United States, 2005-2009

With football practices at high schools and youth recreation leagues well underway this month, a new federal government report warns coaches, parents...

New Rules Expand AmeriCorps

More youths can win education awards for AmeriCorps service, and they can get awards handed down by their grandparents, under new rules...

Source of Funding Grows

Evidence of a post-recession turnaround in contributions to nonprofits continues to slowly emerge, with the latest good news coming from a source...

Yes We Can: The Schott 50 State Report on Public Education and Black Males

The high school graduation rate for African-American males was just 47 percent in 2007-08, far below the 78 percent rate for white...

The Excitement and Pain of Competing for Promise Neighborhoods Money

With President Obama’s Promise Neighborhoods Initiative (PNI) generating enormous excitement – 339 applications were filed in June for just 20 grants –...

Global Employment Trends for Youth: Special Issue on the Impact of the Global Crisis on Youth

Some 81 million young people around the world were unemployed last year, accounting for 13 percent of people aged 15 to 24,...

Repayment Data Show Effect on Proprietary Schools

College loan repayment data released late Friday by the U.S. Department of Education show that some of the largest proprietary colleges face...

Education Department to Increase Scrutiny of Proprietary Colleges

The U.S. Department of Education will hire 60 more investigators and increase the number of investigations by 50 percent, partly in response...

The Legacy of a Slain Los Angeles Anti-Gang Worker

Ronald “Looney” Barron, a Los Angeles gang intervention worker killed in February when he interrupted a youth “tagging” a restaurant wall, is...

Big Gaps, Small Gaps

Some Colleges and Universities Do Better Than Others in Graduating Hispanic Students The Education Trust As the fastest growing minority in America,...

What’s Good About For-Profits?

Steve Pearlstein of The Washington Post explores what’s good about the for-profit college business model and how it challenges traditional educational institutions. ...

‘Get in the Game’ Campaign Targets Uninsured Student Athletes

A pilot public service campaign aimed at signing up more children and youths in seven states for federal health insurance is being...

New York Tells Schools What Their Graduates Know – and Don’t Know

New York City is sending reports to its high schools telling them how many of their students who arrived at the city’s...

Nazario Leaves ACF to Care for Husband

Assistant Secretary for Children and Families Carmen Nazario resigned on July 19 from the top job at the Administration for Children and...

Accusations Prompt Changes at For-Profit Colleges

Some of the nation’s most prominent for-profit colleges have announced changes in their recruitment practices in the wake of a scathing congressional...