All posts tagged "College & Careers"

Grants Focus on Getting Students Through Remedial Courses

  Fifteen community colleges and the five states where they are located will share $16.5 million in grants intended to support and...

Tell, Don’t Ask

After partying and slacking off caused her grades to slip at Chaffey College in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., Lauren Cocroft had a serious...

Diplomas and Dropouts: Which Colleges Actually Graduate Their Students (and Which Don’t)

  American Enterprise Institute Based on data from the U.S. Department of Education, this report examines the graduation rates of more than...

Career and Technical Education: States Have Broad Flexibility in Implementing Perkins IV

Windfall

  If you run an effective college readiness program and were banking on crucial federal funding that failed to come through, do...

Life After Debt?

A growing number of low-income minority students who go to for-profit colleges are taking out and defaulting on private student loans, which...

Afterschool Workforce Development Strategies: From Recruitment to Career Pathways

  Children Now   After-school workforce development projects that focus their outreach efforts on specific demographics, like high school and college students,...

Workforce Investment Act Needs Updating, Agency Says

Jobs for the Future (JFF)  There’s no shortage of ideas on how to retool the Workforce Investment Act in order to make...

NASFAA Head Faces Felony Charges

  The president of the Washington, D.C.-based National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators was charged this week in San Francisco with...

College Dreams Deferred

  Despite increased efforts to make college more affordable and accessible, a new survey shows that a growing number of low-income high...

College Dreams Deferred

Despite increased efforts to make college more affordable and accessible, a new survey shows that a growing number of low-income high school...

FAFSA Process Simplified for Online Applicants

  Next year students who go online to fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid – better known as the...

Five States Get Help With Green Job Training

  Five states will get technical assistance from the U.S. Department of Education’s National Research Center for Career and Technical Education (NRCCTE)...

Grants Focus on Getting Students Through Remedial Courses

  Fifteen community colleges and five states will share $16.5 million in grants meant to support and expand remedial education programs that...

Gates Foundation Takes on College Drop Out Problem

  Six national policy and research organizations will share $6.5 million in grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as part...

Diplomas and Dropouts: Which Colleges Actually Graduate Their Students (and Which Don’t)

By 2015, less than one in four college students who start their higher education studies this fall will have earned a degree....

Mandatory Assistance: Program seeks to help students move off academic probation

  After partying and slacking off caused her grades to slip at Chaffey College in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., Lauren Cocroft had a...

Project Takes Aim at Remedial Math

A $2.5 million research project is being launched to find “promising strategies” to help students get through remedial education classes in college...

Do “Early Commitment’ Programs Make a Difference?

Among the many strategies being employed to get more students from poor families enrolled in college, count the “early commitment” programs as...

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