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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Lumina Grants Aim to Boost College Completion

The Indianapolis-based Lumina Foundation for Education continues its college completion improvement strategy with $14.8 million in grants over four years, divvied into...

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Community Schools Can Improve Rural Education

The Rural Solution: How Community Schools Can Reinvigorate Rural Education Center for American Progress For the one in five students in the...

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Combine Community Schools with Expanding Learning Time to Help Disadvantaged Youth

Breaking the Mold: Combining Community Schools with Expanded Learning Time to Help Educationally Disadvantaged Students Center for American Progress Students who...

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Reading Programs Show Little Lasting Effect

The Enhanced Reading Opportunities Final Report: The Impact of Supplemental Literacy Courses for Struggling Ninth-Grade Readers MDRC and American Institutes for Research...

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Pillars of Effective Dropout Prevention Recovery

Six Pillars of Effective Dropout Prevention Recovery Reinventing Alternative Education Jobs for the Future Most states are moving too slowly toward implementation...

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Home Computer Technology and Student Achievement

Scaling the Digital Divide: Home Computer Technology and Student Achievement Urban Institute This report examines the continuing disparity in at-home computer access...

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Pathways for State-to-District Assistance in Underperforming School Districts

Levers for Change: Pathways for State-to-District Assistance in Underperforming School Districts Center for American Progress In order to achieve better results in...

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Education Gap Widens Wage Gap

Education Pays: The Benefits of Higher Education for Individuals and Society College Board Advocacy and Policy Center A new report from the...

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Characteristics of Bullying, Bullying Victims, and Schools

What Characteristics of Bullying, Bullying Victims, and Schools Are Associated with Increased Reporting of Bullying to School Officials? National Center for Education...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

New Kresge Grants Will Help Put Disadvantaged Youths Through College

The Troy, Mich.-based Kresge Foundation announced last week a new higher education grant-making strategy designed to help disadvantaged populations enter and receive...

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School Suspensions Skyrocket, Racial Gap Widens

Suspended Education: Urban Middle Schools in CrisisSouthern Poverty Law Center Middle schools are suspending more students than ever, and black students are...

The Need for Real Change in Higher Education Reform

By Matthew Denhart American higher education has long been considered a driving force behind the realization of the American Dream. Through a...

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More Financial Aid Goes to Help Students

Tuition Discounting: Institutional Aid Patterns at Public and Private Colleges and Universities, 2000-01 to 2008-09College Board Colleges are spending slightly more of...

It’s Time to End the Over-Representation of African-Americans in Special Education

We know from decades of research that African-American males are labeled with emotional and behavior disorders and intellectual disabilities at rates that...

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Scaling the Digital Divide: Home Computer Technology and Student Achievement

This report examines the continuing disparity in at-home computer access across the socioeconomic spectrum – despite completion of a program to bridge...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

No Summer Recovery for U.S. Teens: A New Record Low Employment Rate in the Summer of 2010

The labor market problems of U.S. workers intensified substantially during the so-called Great Recession of 2007-2009, and the labor market recovery has...

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A Fairer Deal for College Students

Sen. Tom Harkin makes the case for reforming for-profit colleges, in an op-ed in The Washington Post. He writes: “Too many of...

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For-Profit Colleges and Universities: America’s Least Costly and Most Efficient System of Higher Education

For-profit colleges are the best, says this study by a center created by a for-profit college. With the practices of many for-profits...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

A Look at College Dropout Factories

“Nationwide, low-income minority students are disproportionately steered toward colleges not where they’re most likely to succeed, but where they’re most likely to...

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