Search results for "post secondary"

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  The Power of the Education-Industry Partnership

  The Power of the Education-Industry Partnership: Fostering Innovation in Collaboration Between Community Colleges and Businesses The Center for American Progress  Collaboration between...

• Federal Student Aid Strategic Plan FY 2011-15

  U.S. Department of Education Federal Student Aid, a division of the Department of Education, has developed five strategic goals to be implemented...

• News

  For-Profit Skepticism

  For-profit career colleges have mushroomed into a multibillion-dollar industry by building their brand identity around customer service. Through expensive marketing campaigns, they...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Can Companies Save the World?

  When I consider the role the private sector plays in addressing educational and social service needs in society, I vacillate between whether...

• Book Reviews

  College on the Cheap

  Debt-Free U By Zac BissonnettePortfolio Trade304 pages If American higher education is about to get its comeuppance, as many experts are predicting,...

• News

  Psych Meds In Jails

  A ground-breaking, year-long investigation by Youth Today has uncovered ample evidence that many youths incarcerated in American juvenile facilities are getting potent...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Lumina Grants Aim to Boost College Completion

  The Indianapolis-based Lumina Foundation for Education continues its college completion improvement strategy with $14.8 million in grants over four years, divvied into...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  HHS Grants to Help Pregnant Teens and Young Parents

  The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded $27 million through two grant programs to states and tribal organizations...

• News

  Will Calif. Extend Foster Care Services?

  Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is days away from signing or vetoing legislation that would extend foster care services in California to age 21...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Gates Grants to Help Cities Boost College Completion

  Four cities will receive $3 million each to develop innovative approaches to increase their college graduates rates, the Bill & Melinda Gates...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Dropouts Turn Employees: Basic Lessons

  The youth asleep on the park bench attracted Cop Lieu’s attention. Lieu, 22, a supervisor at the Work Group in Pennsauken, N.J.,...

• News

  ACF Releases Rules for Extending Foster Care, GAP to Age 21

  Rules published by the Administration for Children and Families this summer  could make it easier for cash-strapped states to use new federal...

• News

  ‘Good Enough Diploma’

  The General Educational Development test – commonly known as the GED – is getting new attention from education reformers who have found...

• News

  Education Department to Increase Scrutiny of Proprietary Colleges

  The U.S. Department of Education will hire 60 more investigators and increase the number of investigations by 50 percent, partly in response...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Prove It or Lose It

  Barack Obama campaigned on the promise to eliminate federal programs that don’t work, change programs that don’t quite measure up and consolidate duplicate...

• News

  Reforms Aim at For-profit Colleges

    The proposition can seem fair or outrageous: If the federal government, in effect, pays a college to train young people for...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Corps Network, YouthBuild Get Funds to Help Dropouts, Offenders

    The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) awarded two $10 million competitive grants last month to two national youth-serving organizations to support...

• News

  Corporate ‘Earn & Learn’: A Growing Path to Degrees and Careers

    Jennifer Supsky was only 16 years old when she moved to Louisville, Ky., to escape the emotional trauma caused by her...

• News

  U.S. Drops to 12th in Young Adults with College Degrees

  The College Board, which first set the agenda to have 55 percent of America’s with a post-secondary degree by 2025, says the...

• News

  Lumina Foundation Shifts Focus to Policy Making

  The Lumina Foundation for Education, one of the best-known higher-education philanthropies, is shifting its focus from program initiatives to policy development, according...