All posts tagged "College & Careers"

Financial Aid Program Expected to Reach More Students through YMCA

Students and families looking for College Goal Sunday – the volunteer program that offers help  filling out the much-dreaded Free Application for...

William T. Grant Foundation Announces Fifth Group of Youth Service Improvement Grants

The William T. Grant Foundation has awarded its fifth group of Youth Service Improvement Grants (YSIG) to community-based organizations in New York,...

Cities in Crisis 2009: Closing the Graduation Gap

America's Promise Alliance/Editorial Projects in Education Research Center Only slightly more than half (53 percent) of students in the nation's 50 largest...

Watch: “Is Anybody Listening?” video that caused a sensation

Watch: The video that drew presidential attention. Read our article here.

Stimulus Funds Fuel Summer Jobs

It’s not easy to spend $1.2 billion quickly and well – as people who provide summer jobs for youth are about to...

YouthBuild Showcases a House and Its Revival

Building support: The first lady’s visit gets a reaction from Stoneman. Photo: CNCS Five young men listened intently as they gathered around...

Youth Video Draws Obama to ‘Early College’ School

Visual appeal: Youths at the Village Academy speak in this YouTube video about how the economic crisis is hurting their families. In...

National Guard Youth-Reclamation Program Rises to the ChalleNGe

  The Basics Launched in 1993 as a small, five-year demonstration project designed by the U.S. Defense Department’s National Guard Bureau to...

Helping Former Foster Youth Graduate from College: Campus Support Programs in California and Washington State

Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago This report explores campus-based support programs that seek to remove barriers that former foster youths...

Military Enlistment of Hispanic Youth: Obstacles and Opportunities

Hispanics' underrepresentation in the U.S. military - given the minority group's high interest in armed forces enlistment - can be traced in...

America’s Youth at 21: School Enrollment, Training, and Employment Transitions between Ages 20 and 21 Summary

How Chicago Sends More Kids to College

Tutoring is key. Photo: AVID Before President Barack Obama plucked him from Chicago to serve as the nation’s new education secretary, Arne...

Project Offers Help for Getting Financial Aid

Oreopoulos: Report urges partnership between federal departments to ease aid applications. Testifying at his January confirmation hearing to become U.S. education secretary,...

Most Stimulus Jobs Require College Experience

A little more than half of the 3.7 million jobs expected to be created by the new economic stimulus package will require...

The Texas Approach to Truancy: Curfews and Tickets

In Dallas, law enforcement officials say the existing process for dealing with truants is not working. That process is simple: officers pick...

OBAMA JOB WATCH: Employment and Training Administation (Updated June 30)

UPDATE, June 30: Jane Oates has been confirmed by the Senate. UPDATE, Apr. 10: President Obama announced his intent to nominate Jane...

OBAMA JOB WATCH: Corporation for National and Community Service

There are a handful of names we hear either could run CNCS well, or want to run CNCS. The most frequently uttered...

Small Price to Keep a Kid in College

  As a single mother of a small child with fragile health, and with no educational credentials except a GED, Denise Lee...

Chairs Named for House Education and Labor Subcommittees

Democrats have been named as chairs of the five subcommittees of the House Education and Labor Committee. The committee deals with a...

Ready for Life: Yes, That Means College

The core belief at the Forum for Youth Investment – that all young people should be “Ready by 21,” meaning ready for...