Robert Hill knows firsthand what it’s like to be an overweight child. “I grew up hating physical activity and only eating foods...
This report from the Education Trust details the extreme wealth stratification occurring among institutions of higher education across the nation. It finds...
Just 10 years ago, the nation’s on-time high school graduation rate was hovering around 70 percent, where it had been stuck for...
Hanh Cao Yu, Ph.D. - Vince Yanez - Peter Nadosy - James S. Crown - Kathy Reich - John Irons, Ph.D.
The National Center for Education Statistics recently published the most recent edition of its Condition of Education report which uses the latest...
Before moving from her biological mother’s home and into foster care at age 10, Kathy Rando was in the gifted program at...
Before the Allegheny County Department of Human Services set up a data-sharing program back in 2009 with the Pittsburgh Public School District,...
David Barth - Rebecca C. Villareal - Steve Hollingworth - Stephanie Clusky - Chera D. Reid
The Obama administration wants to help young people land their first job, including those who have dropped out of high school. The...
Subject: Education, Higher Education, Youth Development, Disadvantaged Youth | Deadline: Feb. 5, 2016
As superintendent of the school district that serves Ferguson, Missouri, Joe Davis is keenly aware how the word “Ferguson” has become much...
The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014 was the first reform of the public workforce system in 15 years. Now, Regional...
How can we expect young people who are worried about where they will sleep that night, where their next meal will come...
“We are more than six years into the so-called [recession] recovery, yet millions of Americans continue to struggle with finding a good-paying...
In 2014, approximately 5.6 million young people were out of work or school, and the youth unemployment rate was double that of...
The paradox of adolescence is that the same changes in the brain that increase adolescents’ propensity toward risk also allow for enhanced...
Subject: Education, Research, Education Technology | Deadline: Jan. 12, 2016
When Executive Director Sally Hindman founded YSA in 2007, she was aware of the need for a space for local homeless youth...
Subject: Education, Higher Education, Humanities, Youth Development | Deadline: Aug. 24, 2015
Mason faces underlying and persistent tribulation most of his peers don’t: his citizenship status and the legal, financial and psychological barriers that...