All posts tagged "College & Careers"

Dropout Prevention Group Calls it Quits

  Larry Brown guided WAVE to new heights. Faced with increasing financial strains and the sudden loss of its longtime leader, the...

DOL Tips for Reaching Hard-to-Serve Youths

  The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration has released a new guidance for states, workforce investment boards and local...

Diploma Attainment Among Teen Mothers

  Child Trends This Child Trends report, based on recently released data from a national survey, addresses whether teen mothers go on...

Expanding Access and Opportunity: The Impact of the Gates Millennium Scholars Program

  Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) The Gates Millennium Scholars (GMS) program, established in 1999 by the Bill & Melinda Gates...

Tips for Working with Hard-to-Serve Youths Outlined in Labor Department Memo

The U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration (DOLETA) has released a new guidance for states, workforce investment boards and local...

Youth Agencies among Winners of Recovery Act-Funded Health Care Training Grants

Several youth-serving agencies will share in $225 million worth of “health care and high growth” training grants the U.S. Department of Labor...

Financial Aid Tips Help Homeless and Foster Youth; Some Find Fault

An organization of financial aid administrators has released a new tip sheet to help homeless youths and youths who’ve been in foster...

Thinking of Steering Youths to a Two- or Four-Year College? Think Again

The hierarchy of college degrees does not correspond with a graduated scale of wages. In other words, once youths finish their postsecondary...

College Goal Sunday Offers Expert Help with Financial Aid Form

Even though the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, better known as FAFSA, has been simplified and put online, it still makes...

Watch: Even in Digital Age, College Goal Sunday Still Fills Vital Need

GAO Faults Labor on Quality, Delays of Evaluations

A new Government Accountability Office study found a pattern of long delays in the issuing of reports from the U.S. Department of...

Military Recruiters Plied Youths with Drugs, Alcohol, Fake Diplomas

At a time when high unemployment and high college costs compel more youths to consider military enlistment, a new federal report raises...

Labor Official Decries Liberal Arts ‘Disconnect’

  Jane Oates Jane Oates, the Labor Department official in charge of training and employment, surprised those attending the Association of American...

With Their Whole Lives Ahead of Them: Myths and Realities About Why So Many Students Fail to Finish College

  Public Agenda (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) Only 20 percent of students at two-year colleges graduate within three years and only...

Student Debt and the Class of 2008

  Pew Charitable Trusts The rate of unemployment for college graduates ages 20-24 in 2008 was 7.6 percent; it rose to a...

Squeeze Play 2010: Continued Public Anxiety on Cost, Harsher Judgements on How Colleges are Run

The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education and Public Agenda According to a survey conducted by The National Center for...

Report Calls for More Emphasis on Self-Employment for Youths

Calling it “dangerous” to think more corporate and small business jobs are the only solution to America’s unemployment problem, a new report...

College- and Career- Ready: Using Outcomes Data to Hold High Schools Accountable for Student Success

This report focuses on a new way of determining which high schools are turning out the students best prepared to take  on...

Are Flagship Public Universities Turning Their Backs on Low-Income, Minority Applicants?

  A scathing new report from the Education Trust, a national advocacy organization that focuses on closing achievement gaps, states that says...

A Liberal Education for Some?

We want one class of persons to have a liberal education and we want another class of persons, a very much larger...