Subject: Social Activism, Juvenile Justice, Civic Engagement | Deadline: Dec. 6, 2017 (letters of intent)
The Center for American Progress highlights the oft-overlooked struggles of part-time college students in America. Making up 37 percent of all undergraduates,...
As any high schooler can tell you, finding paid work experience in today’s economy can be a real challenge. But youth...
Foster care placement has been described as the most tragic experience faced by a child because it introduces instability...
Our country is divided on many issues, yet there is one issue that is very hard to argue against: the need to...
In fall 2016, 20.5 million students attended American colleges and universities, including 6.3 million in community colleges. My nephew, Sam, is one...
When Katrice Wiley, a longtime Baltimore City Public Schools administrator, served as principal at a 6-12 school on the city’s east side,...
The latest edition of this annual report by the National Center for Education Statistics and the Bureau of Justice Statistics examines the...
The Los Angeles County Office of Education boasts that scores of young people who were at risk of dropping out of high...
We were going to use this space to rant against those elected officials who would vote to kill off Big Bird by...
Subject: Education, Education Support, Job/Career Training | Deadline: June 19, 2017
A comprehensive survey of 33,000 students in 24 states released last week provides a bleak look at life for community college students...
Eighteen-year-old Vanessa Flores still remembers stumbling over her words on her second day at San Diego City College (SDCC) last fall when...
As a new Congress and president take power, we’re entering a period of infinite unknowns.
In his aptly titled book “Show Me the Evidence,” Ron Haskins demonstrates how nonprofits and community programs today must prove their value...
Subject: Education, High School, Graduation Rate | Deadline: Feb. 15, 2017
While the U.S. is on track to have one of its best years for job growth in 2016 since the Great Recession,...
What if a tool existed to make your after-school or summer youth program better? Would you get it and read the instructions?
Nearly 9 million of the 25 million adolescents in this country live in low-income households today, and of that 9 million, almost...
Subject: Education, Higher Education, Youth Development | Deadline: Nov. 28, 2016