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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...

A Way to Reach Out-of-School Youth

Washington, D.C. — While the path toward post-secondary education and gainful employment is a long, hard journey for youths who’ve dropped out...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Dropout Prevention Group Calls it Quits

Larry Brown guided WAVE to new heights. Faced with increasing financial strains and the sudden loss of its longtime leader, the...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Awards for March 2010

Corps Foundation Annual Awards Alejandro Lopez William Brandt By: The Corps Foundation Contact: Sarah Stankorb (202) 737-6272, sstankorb@corpsnetwork.org, http://www.corpsnetwork.org. Syd Howe Lifetime...

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They Won’t Stay Outside Forever: Black Young Men and Unemployment

On Saturday, Jan. 30, Washington, D.C., got its second snowstorm in six weeks. Not nearly as big as the first (only...

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College- and Career-Ready: Using Outcomes Data to Hold High Schools Accountable for Student Success

Education Sector This report focuses on a new way of determining which high schools are turning out the students best prepared...

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Grants Awarded for March 2010

Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation(816) 932-1000http://www.kauffman.org • Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health, Palo Alto, Calif., $65,000 for a fellowship to advance pediatric...

Thinking of Steering Youths to a Two- or Four-Year College? Think Again

The hierarchy of college degrees does not correspond with a graduated scale of wages. In other words, once youths finish their postsecondary...

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College- and Career- Ready: Using Outcomes Data to Hold High Schools Accountable for Student Success

This report focuses on a new way of determining which high schools are turning out the students best prepared to take on...

A Liberal Education for Some?

We want one class of persons to have a liberal education and we want another class of persons, a very much larger...

New Tool Helps College Administrators Examine the Financial Benefits of Student Success Programs

If you ever find yourself being asked to defend the cost-effectiveness of a program meant to help struggling youths stay in college,...

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College Opportunity Knocks, But Often Gets No Answer

When Kauffman Scholars Inc. launched its college access program with a group of seventh-graders in 2003, administrators thought its promise of a...

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Community Schools Improve Graduation Rates

National Association of Secondary School Principals and the Coalition for Community Schools Community schools are effective in increasing high school graduation...

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Does Kauffman Put Too Much Emphasis on Four-Year Schools?

College access experts increasingly lament the small percentage of low-income youths entering college who achieve the more important goal: making it out...

Colleges Need to Ramp Up for the Recovery

America’s post-secondary education sector needs to ramp up for a future economy that will be increasingly reliant on workers who have at...

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Gates Grants to Boost Community College Education

The Bill & Melinda Foundation has awarded $12.9 million through four grants to enhance and create advanced technological opportunities for community colleges....

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