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All posts tagged "College & Careers"
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News
Republicans Eye Cuts to Pell Grants to Gain Tea Party Votes
Supporters of Pell Grants for low-income college students put out an urgent appeal to mobilize students to blitz their congressional representatives for...
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Top Headlines: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Top Headlines 7/27
Child Welfare As more children are placed in foster families, adopted or returned to their birth parents, the number of group foster...
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News
$4.46 Million Spent in Second Quarter Lobbying against ‘Gainful Employment’ Rules
At least $4.46 million was spent lobbying on federal student loan issues over the second quarter of the year – mostly in...
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Top Headlines: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Top Headlines 7/26
Child Welfare Gay teens in Massachusetts are more likely to be homeless than their heterosexual peers, according to new research from the...
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News
Tweets, E-mails Fly to ‘Save Pell’
Students are planning to take on the government in their media today, staging a one-day blitz of tweets, emails and other electronic...
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How More Flexibility in Federal Education Funding Will Hurt Low-Income and Minority Students
The U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce recently sent to the full House a bill that is designed to provide...
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► Reports
A Statistical Portrait of American Postsecondary Students
Students attending for-profit colleges are more likely to be poor, poorly prepared for college, most dependent on financial aid, most likely to...
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► Reports
A Statistical Portrait of American Postsecondary Students
Students attending for-profit colleges are more likely to be poor, poorly prepared for college, most dependent on financial aid, most likely to...
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National Postsecondary Enrollment Trends Before, During and After the Great Recession
National Student Clearinghouse Research Center This report spotlights national and regional college enrollment trends among traditional-age, first-time students during the fall...
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Affordability and Transfer Critical to Increase Bachelor’s Degree Completion
National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education The importance of the U.S. having more college graduates and the role that community...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Awards July 2011
2011 Champions of Health Professions Diversity Award For: Commitment to increasing California’s health care workforce and its diversity. By: The California Wellness...
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► Newsmakers
Newsmakers July 2011
Nonprofits Roxanne Spillett, who has led the Atlanta-based Boys & Girls Clubs of America since 1996, announced she will step down as...
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News
Education Department’s ‘Program Integrity’ Rules Remain Under Fire
The Obama administration’s attempts to increase the integrity of institutions of higher education – especially among the companies that operate for-profit colleges...
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Guest Opinion Essay
The Path Less Traveled
The path of a college education isn’t always a straight one. This essay, written by Arlington, Va., native Alissandra Hipona as a...
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Book Reviews
Quality? It’s All in a School’s Reputation
The College Cost Disease: Higher Cost and Lower QualityRobert E. MartinEdward Elgar Pub, $99.95 Numerous books have been written lately suggesting that...
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News
The Zero-Tolerance Equation
For nearly two decades, one of the hottest buzzwords in public education has been “zero-tolerance,” as in: Bring a weapon to school...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
National League of Cities Joins Campaign for Grade-Level Reading
The National League of Cities (NLC) is joining a national effort to increase the number of low-income children who read at grade...
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News
Parents Group Stymied in Push for School Turnaround
Parents trying to force establishment of a charter school in lieu of a failing elementary school using California’s so-called “parent trigger” law...
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Book Reviews
Real Men: Urban Teens Write About How to Be a Man
Real Men: Urban Teens Write About How to Be a ManYouth Communication226 pages. In 35 autobiographical stories and articles, 26 urban males...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
A Leader’s Guide to Real Men: Urban Teens Write About How to Be a Man
A Leader’s Guide to Real Men: Urban Teens Write About How to Be a ManYouth Communication and Development without Limits354 pages. also...
