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• New Database Shows Costs and Expenditures at 2,300 U.S. Colleges

  A Washington-based nonprofit that aims to monitor college costs and expenditures released an online database this week that makes it easy for...

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  New Database Shows Costs and Expenditures at 2,300 U.S. Colleges

  A Washington-based nonprofit that aims to monitor college costs and expenditures released an online database this week that makes it easy for...

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  Report: Declining College Degree Prospects For Low-Income Youths

  In the coming years, low- and moderate-income youth will find it increasingly difficult to afford the cost of a college degree because...

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  For-Profit College Reforms Stir Debate

  The U.S. Department of Education is proposing new rules to oversee the growing field of for-profit higher education, but it kicked the...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Jobs Forecast Predicts Increasing Need for College Degrees

  The vast majority of American jobs in the next few years will require some type of post-secondary training or degree, meaning that...

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  Towards a New Model of Success for Disconnected Youth

    Youth Development Institute (YDI) This report serves as a guide for forming partnerships between community-based organizations and colleges that want to...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Gates Foundation Pledges $110 Million to Improve Remedial Courses

    In an effort to increase the number of students who complete college, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged up...

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  An Educated Guess

    Bethesda, Md.—Eighteen-year-old Eduardo Sartor arrived at the office of Collegiate Directions Inc. late last month with his parents, a stack of...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  … Prepare At-Risk Girls for College

    Numerous programs address how to keep at-risk students in high school and ensure that they graduate, but there are far fewer...

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  Survey of Entering Student Engagement, Benchmarking & Benchmarks: Effective Practice with Entering Students

    This report supports “benchmarking” as a way for community colleges to measure how well they are making sure the students who...

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  Scaling Up Learning Communities: The Experience of Six Community Colleges

  This report examines lessons learned at six community colleges that have adopted the strategy of using “learning communities” – defined as groups...

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  Scaling Up Learning Communities: The Experience of Six Community Colleges

  This report examines lessons learned at six community colleges that have adopted the strategy of using “learning communities” – defined as groups...

• Report Details Heavy Debt Loads for College Graduates

  Students who pursued bachelor’s degrees from for-profit colleges have the highest student loan debt, according to a new research brief from the...

• Youth-Serving Agencies Benefit from Lumina Grants

  Portions of the $3.4 million in first-quarter grants announced this week by the Lumina Foundation for Education will trickle down to youth-serving...

• College Graduation Rates Stagnate, Despite More Students

    More first-time, full-time students are enrolling in college, and more of these students are receiving financial aid, but the percentage of...

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  Boy Scout Confidential

  Related on the Web Book: Scout’s Honor: Sexual Abuse in America’s Most Trusted Institution Q&A With Patrick Boyle, Author of ‘Scout’s Honor’...

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  Can I Get a Little Advice Here? How an Overstretched High School Guidance System Is Undermining Students’ College Aspirations

    Public Agenda This report examines the high school guidance system through the eyes of its former customers and concludes that it...

• Testing the Testing for Remedial Courses

  Surprised and annoyed. That’s how some youths at Community College of Baltimore County say they felt when they found out they had...

• New Group Strives to Increase College Degrees

  Among the many organizations whose stated purpose is to increase the number of youths who earn a postsecondary degree, add another to...

• The Trouble with High School Guidance Counselors

  A new report that describes America’s high school guidance counselor system as “perilously weak” reminds me of the one time I went...