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Even Harvard Agrees: Four-Year Colleges Aren’t for Everyone

The one American college perhaps most synonymous with traditional postsecondary ideals has issued a report championing community colleges over four-year schools in...

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Enrollment at For-Profit Colleges Rose 25 Percent in 2009

College enrollment rose more than 7 percent in the 2009-2010 school year, rising from 19.6 million in the fall of 2008 to...

College Isn’t Helping Ill-Prepared Students Catch Up

Everyone over age 40 knows that education is wasted on the young. So why are people getting so worked up about a...

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Revised Gainful Employment Rule Due in “Early Part” of 2011

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...

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For-Profits Specialize in Healthcare Fields, but Not the Ones Most Needed

Training students to fill jobs in the so-called allied health professions – a category that includes scores of occupations other than doctor,...

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Let’s Help Youth Who Are in Doubt and in Debt

Once again, young people are bearing the brunt of our failure to monitor effectively the institutions they go to for help. You...

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Child Welfare Carl Kozlowski of the Pasadena Weekly in California wrote a trilogy of stories over the past month about Mary O’Connor’s...

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Education/Jobs From the Washington Post’s Susan M. Swearer, five myths about bullying. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan frames the looming reauthorization of...

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The Social and Educational Factors Contributing to the Outcomes of Black Males in Urban Schools

The Council of the Great City Schools The council, for the first time, tried to measure exactly the extent of challenges facing...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

With No Government Regulations, Online High Schools Can Be Costly Pursuits

By Mc Nelly Torres Florida Center for Investigative Reporting Rodolfo M. Rodriguez, a 24-year-old cashier at a gas station in Davie,...

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Child Welfare On December 15, 2010, the American Bar Association will host a free web-based training for attorneys who represent clients appealing...

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The National Teen Jobs Crisis: Alternative Policies to Boost In High School Employment and Improve the Early School-to-Work Transition

Over the recent Thanksgiving holiday period, both President Obama and Austin Scott, the newly-elected U.S. Representative from Georgia, took to the air...

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Weekly Notes: WIA reauthorization prognosis; Community colleges report

Weekly Notes, Week of 11/15/10 Now that the election is over, the focus in education and workforce policy is squarely on legislative...

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Education Department Hears from Small For-Profits On New Regs

The Department of Education’s public meetings on the gainful employment rule Thursday provided a pedestal for numerous, and repetitive, arguments on yet-to-be...

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… Help At-Risk Youths with Military Programs

Help Dropouts Graduate National Guard Patriot AcademyButlerville, Ind.(800)-237-2850, ext. 41898www.ngpatriotacademy.com The Strategy: Help high school dropouts obtain their high school diplomas, and...

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Finishing the First Lap: The Cost of First-Year Student Attrition in America’s Four-Year Colleges and Universities

American Institutes for Research Drawing on the Obama administration’s plan to implement changes that would move the country up from its current...

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College Board Report Finds Tuition, Grant Aid Increasing

The price of going to any type of college was up again this year, but the actual cost went down for many...

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Help Minorities Succeed in STEM Education

Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation: America’s Science and Technology Talent at the Crossroads National Academies Although minorities are the fastest-growing subset of the...

GAO Urges Crackdown on College Recruitment Violations

Stronger Federal Oversight Needed to Enforce Ban on Incentive Payments to School Recruiters U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) The federal government has...