Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago This report explores campus-based support programs that seek to remove barriers that former foster youths...
Tutoring is key. Photo: AVID Before President Barack Obama plucked him from Chicago to serve as the nation’s new education secretary, Arne...
Oreopoulos: Report urges partnership between federal departments to ease aid applications. Testifying at his January confirmation hearing to become U.S. education secretary,...
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Flint, Mich. (810) 238-5651 http://www.mott.org • YouthBuild USA, Somerville, Mass., $200,000 to provide students with opportunities for...
Below is a look at how the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 will affect funding for youth services in federal...
A little more than half of the 3.7 million jobs expected to be created by the new economic stimulus package will require...
Chicago Public Schools students have made slow but steady progress in several key areas during the eight-year leadership of CEO Arne...
As a single mother of a small child with fragile health, and with no educational credentials except a GED, Denise Lee...
Allstate Foundation Northbrook, Ill.(847) 402-5600http://www.allstate.com/foundation/ All grants are given to promote the economic empowerment of domestic violence survivors. • Florida Coalition...
Illustrations by Dean MacAdam After Barack Obama won last month’s presidential election, gatherings of youth workers and advocates took on the air...
Vargas: Dual enrollment initiatives are spreading to more states. “We want students who aren’t on their way to college,” said Daniel Voloch....
The core belief at the Forum for Youth Investment – that all young people should be “Ready by 21,” meaning ready for...
The Bill and Melinda Gates FoundationSeattle(206) 709-3100http://www.gatesfoundation.org • Lakeside School, Seattle, $4 million for general operating support. • Washington Alliance for...
About two dozen organizations will share $69 million in grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help double the number...
Nearly 90 percent of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) middle and high school students were verbally harassed at school during the...
Click on chart to open PDF version. Before the hammer fell last year, a federal demonstration project to guide disadvantaged youth...
Kenneth Gray Corwin Press196 pages. $25.95. As an outspoken advocate of career education and alternatives to four-year college degrees, Gray commands attention:...
Buried in a 431-page reauthorization measure for higher education are a few small but potentially important provisions that should boost supportive...
http://www.compact.org Campus Compact is a growing national network of more than 1,100 post-secondary educational administrators dedicated to promoting community service, civic...
The Extra Mile: Foster youth Halston Green (right) is in the financial savings and education program at the Mile High United Way...