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Gates Foundation Takes on College Drop Out Problem

Six national policy and research organizations will share $6.5 million in grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as part...

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Audit Slams Largest AmeriCorps Program

The nation’s largest and most expensive AmeriCorps program – the Teaching Fellows project at the City University of New York –...

Project Takes Aim at Remedial Math

A $2.5 million research project is being launched to find “promising strategies” to help students get through remedial education classes in college...

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Growing a Workforce

Skills with teeth: Pam Fuller, 17, practices using a dental instrument in her dental assisting class at Central Educational Center. Photo: Jamaal...

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A Plus for Teens Faces Subtraction

Watch the original Youth Today video, “Hard Times at Sunnyside High” Tucson, Ariz.—Every day after school during the past year, 17-year-old Veronica...

Report urges more funding for community colleges

The case for investing more resources in community colleges gets a boost in a new report that takes a global look at...

Will the Push to College Lower Standards?

Could efforts to increase college graduation and retention rates “backfire” by leading colleges to lower standards? Such is one of the main...

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Spreading Goodwill for Youth

Building youth work: The Goodwill agency in Tacoma, Wash., started a YouthBuild program, showing how Goodwill can partner with other groups....

► Newsmakers

Newsmakers for May 2009

Pamela Wilcox NONPROFITS Camp Fire USA has a temporary new leader in Pamela Wilcox, who was appointed interim CEO to fill...

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Personal Touch Guides Youths Toward Graduation

Capping it off: A photographer adjusts the tassel on the graduation cap of Jonathan Wade, 19, on senior picture day at Fuller...

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Youth Video Draws Obama to ‘Early College’ School

Visual appeal: Youths at the Village Academy speak in this YouTube video about how the economic crisis is hurting their families. In...

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Youth Video Draws Obama to ‘Early College’ School

Visual appeal: Youths at the Village Academy speak in this YouTube video about how the economic crisis is hurting their families. In...

Grants

Grants Awarded for April 2009

AT&T Corp.San Antonio(212) 387-6555http://www.att.com • Hispanic Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C., $25,000 for a mentor program that connects Hispanic high school students with...

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Helping Former Foster Youth Graduate from College: Campus Support Programs in California and Washington State

Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago This report explores campus-based support programs that seek to remove barriers that former foster youths...

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How Chicago Sends More Kids to College

Tutoring is key. Photo: AVID Before President Barack Obama plucked him from Chicago to serve as the nation’s new education secretary, Arne...

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Project Offers Help for Getting Financial Aid

Oreopoulos: Report urges partnership between federal departments to ease aid applications. Testifying at his January confirmation hearing to become U.S. education secretary,...

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Grants Awarded for March 2009

Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Flint, Mich. (810) 238-5651 http://www.mott.org • YouthBuild USA, Somerville, Mass., $200,000 to provide students with opportunities for...

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