All posts tagged "College & Careers"

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Details on Major Labor Dept. Grant Program for 2-Year Colleges

  The U.S. Department of Labor issued a solicitation for two-year colleges interested in funding from an overall pot of $2 billion to...

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  For-Profit Colleges Intensify Lobbying on Proposed Rules

  A year of congressional hearings, bad publicity, falling enrollments and federal rule modifications has led to major changes in the for-profit private...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Survey Shows How Jobless Youth are Adjusting

  With youth unemployment still near record highs, unemployed teens and young adults appear to be reacting to their situation much as their...

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  California Parents Pull ‘Trigger’ for School Takeover

  Parents in Compton, Calif., south of Los Angeles, have organized the first challenge to one of the state’s poorly performing public schools,...

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  Trends in High School Dropout and Completion Rates in the United States: 1972-2008

  A new federal report is the latest measurement of the American high dropout picture, this one quantifying not just rates of ninth...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  The National Teen Jobs Crisis: Alternative Policies to Boost In High School Employment and Improve the Early School-to-Work Transition

  Over the recent Thanksgiving holiday period, both President Obama and Austin Scott, the newly-elected U.S. Representative from Georgia, took to the air...

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  Q & A: Bradley Curs on How Need-based State Financial Aid Leads to Schools Raising Tuition

  Last month’s annual Association for the Study of Higher Education conference in Indianapolis featured the presentation of a particular piece of research...

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  Dropout Factories on the Decline, Report Says

  A significant decrease in Southern “dropout factories” – high schools in which 60 percent or fewer of incoming freshmen classes go on...

• Introducing Harriet Boorhem, Youth Today’s First Diarist

  I first became aware of Harriet Boorhem about a year ago while we were researching a story on the state of homeless...

• Want to Prompt Action on Black Male Achievement Gap? Take Out the Word “Black”

  “Black males are in crisis.” So begins a new study from the Council of the Great City Schools (CGCS), which finds that...

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  Subprime Opportunity: The Unfulfilled Promise of For-Profit Colleges and Universities

  Only 22 percent of first-time, full-time students at for-profit schools received their degree within six years, compared to 55 percent of similar...

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  DREAM Act Not Ready to Die in 111th

  DREAM Act supporters are making one final push in the 111th Congress before Republicans take over the House in January. President Barack...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Weekly Notes: WIA reauthorization prognosis; Community colleges report

  Weekly Notes, Week of 11/15/10 Now that the election is over, the focus in education and workforce policy is squarely on legislative...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Doth the Earmark Trough Runneth Dry?

  The practice of “earmarking” federal money, a Congressional device with debatable impact on the field of youth work, may soon face extinction....

• Weekly Notes: Ed. Dept. meetings, Newark, Boys Town

  Ed/Jobs Notes, Week of 11/8/10 Sat in on the first day of last week’s Department of Education public meetings on the gainful...

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  City Roles in Creating High School Alternatives for Struggling Students

  The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded the National League of Cities to work with five cities (Corpus Christi, Texas; Hartford, Conn.;...

• Youth Orgs Should Ride “Superman’s” Cape

  I heard a colleague suggest that youth-serving agencies are trying to hitch their wagons to the education-reform train; well, more specifically, riding...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Community Colleges in Demand

  At Bunker Hill Community College, fall enrollment broke another record, topping 12,000 students. To accommodate so many students, the Boston school now...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Education Department Warns Schools on Bullying

  The Department of Education has notified schools and colleges that it intends to penalize systems that refuse to address pervasive problems with...

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  Minorities in Higher Education 2010

  American Council on Education Higher education attainment rates for college-aged African-Americans and Hispanics have dropped across the board, according to this report...