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Can I Get a Little Advice Here? How an Overstretched High School Guidance System Is Undermining Students’ College Aspirations

Public Agenda This report examines the high school guidance system through the eyes of its former customers and concludes that it...

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Terms of Engagement: Men of Color Discuss Their Experiences in Community College

MDRC Issues of manliness, self-reliance and respect are among those explored in this report, which examines the experiences of “men of...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Workforce3 One

http://www.workforce3one.org/page/grants_toolkit Grant applicants can use the tools on this website for guidance when applying for grants from the Labor Department’s Employment and...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Study Examines Teaching Occupational Skills Along with English

This new evaluation from the Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration deals with lessons learned from the Limited English Proficiency and...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Is it OK to Party on the Federal Dime?

Ho, ho, ho? Hell no. That sums up the reaction that the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) had...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Study Examines Teaching Occupational Skills Along with English

This new evaluation from the Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration deals with lessons learned from the Limited English Proficiency and...

Essay Contest

While I can’t write about every single scholarship opportunity and essay contest that exists, this particular essay contest being sponsored by Junior...

Student Loan Overhaul Means More Money for Pell Grants

When President Barack Obama signs the student loan overhaul bill into law on Tuesday, it will represent a radical departure from a...

Testing the Testing for Remedial Courses

Surprised and annoyed. That’s how some youths at Community College of Baltimore County say they felt when they found out they had...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Youth Summer Jobs Program: Did it Work?

At a time when many youth-serving agencies await word on whether there will be any federal money set aside for another youth...

News

Youth Groups Get a Piece of President’s Prize

President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize is paying off for several charities that work with youths and young adults. The White House yesterday...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Feds Name New National Job Corps Director

Edna Primrose, a longtime youth worker and Job Corps administrator, has been named national director of Job Corps, according to a memo...

New Group Strives to Increase College Degrees

Among the many organizations whose stated purpose is to increase the number of youths who earn a postsecondary degree, add another to...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Audit Says ResCare Billed Improperly for Job Corps

ResCare, Inc. – the second-largest Job Corps site operator in the nation – improperly billed the Job Corps program for nearly $117,000,...

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 went...

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...

New Website Helps to Apply for Labor Grants

If you’re interested in applying for competitive grants from the U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration (ETA) – and a...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

$650M Available for Innovation in Education

The U.S. Department of Education today released its “final priorities” and the grant application for the $650 million Investing in Innovation Fund....