Portions of the $3.4 million in first-quarter grants announced this week by the Lumina Foundation for Education will trickle down to youth-serving...
More first-time, full-time students are enrolling in college, and more of these students are receiving financial aid, but the percentage of...
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Surprised and annoyed. That’s how some youths at Community College of Baltimore County say they felt when they found out they had...
Among the many organizations whose stated purpose is to increase the number of youths who earn a postsecondary degree, add another to...
A new report that describes America’s high school guidance counselor system as “perilously weak” reminds me of the one time I went...
A new report that describes America’s high school guidance counselor system as “perilously weak” reminds me of the one time I...
Washington, D.C. — While the path toward post-secondary education and gainful employment is a long, hard journey for youths who’ve dropped out...
Larry Brown guided WAVE to new heights. Faced with increasing financial strains and the sudden loss of its longtime leader, the...
Corps Foundation Annual Awards Alejandro Lopez William Brandt By: The Corps Foundation Contact: Sarah Stankorb (202) 737-6272, sstankorb@corpsnetwork.org, http://www.corpsnetwork.org. Syd Howe Lifetime...
On Saturday, Jan. 30, Washington, D.C., got its second snowstorm in six weeks. Not nearly as big as the first (only...
Education Sector This report focuses on a new way of determining which high schools are turning out the students best prepared...
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation(816) 932-1000http://www.kauffman.org • Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health, Palo Alto, Calif., $65,000 for a fellowship to advance pediatric...
The hierarchy of college degrees does not correspond with a graduated scale of wages. In other words, once youths finish their postsecondary...
This report focuses on a new way of determining which high schools are turning out the students best prepared to take on...
We want one class of persons to have a liberal education and we want another class of persons, a very much larger...
If you ever find yourself being asked to defend the cost-effectiveness of a program meant to help struggling youths stay in college,...
When Kauffman Scholars Inc. launched its college access program with a group of seventh-graders in 2003, administrators thought its promise of a...
National Association of Secondary School Principals and the Coalition for Community Schools Community schools are effective in increasing high school graduation...