The National Center for Education Statistics massive annual report, The Condition of Education, released today focuses on the rise of for-profit postsecondary...
Bryan Samuels, who has served for more than a year now as President Barack Obama’s Commissioner for the Administration on Children, Youth...
After a long, frustrating wait for action on any juvenile justice-related legislation, the pending reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act...
How can it be that today, in the midst of the most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression and millions of...
The Education Department has issued its definition of what work must be accomplished to earn reimbursement from federal financial aid programs for...
National Center for Postsecondary Research More students enroll in community colleges as opposed to four-year institutions each year, mostly because of the...
Child Welfare Child welfare advocates in Massachusetts are trying to get reinstatement of $100 million in budget cuts to the child welfare...
The one American college perhaps most synonymous with traditional postsecondary ideals has issued a report championing community colleges over four-year schools in...
College enrollment rose more than 7 percent in the 2009-2010 school year, rising from 19.6 million in the fall of 2008 to...
Everyone over age 40 knows that education is wasted on the young. So why are people getting so worked up about a...
The U.S. Department of Education will release final changes to the so-called gainful employment rule affecting for-profit colleges in the “early part...
Training students to fill jobs in the so-called allied health professions – a category that includes scores of occupations other than doctor,...
Once again, young people are bearing the brunt of our failure to monitor effectively the institutions they go to for help. You...
Child Welfare Carl Kozlowski of the Pasadena Weekly in California wrote a trilogy of stories over the past month about Mary O’Connor’s...
Education/Jobs From the Washington Post’s Susan M. Swearer, five myths about bullying. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan frames the looming reauthorization of...
The Council of the Great City Schools The council, for the first time, tried to measure exactly the extent of challenges facing...
By Mc Nelly Torres Florida Center for Investigative Reporting Rodolfo M. Rodriguez, a 24-year-old cashier at a gas station in Davie,...
Child Welfare On December 15, 2010, the American Bar Association will host a free web-based training for attorneys who represent clients appealing...
Over the recent Thanksgiving holiday period, both President Obama and Austin Scott, the newly-elected U.S. Representative from Georgia, took to the air...
Weekly Notes, Week of 11/15/10 Now that the election is over, the focus in education and workforce policy is squarely on legislative...