All posts tagged "College & Careers"

Obama Presses Higher Ed to be More Inclusive of Disenfranchised, Challenged and Poor Students

Official photo courtesy the White House. As an effort to increase enrollment numbers and include more low-income students in colleges, President Barack...

Children As Givers: Teaching Kids and Teens to be Philanthropic

April 20, 2010. People around the world were glued to their TV’s as hundreds of millions of gallons of oil gushed into...

In This Together: The Hidden Cost of Young Adult Unemployment

Computing and Engineering in Afterschool

Out-of-school Time Programs Boost Students’ Computing, Engineering Skills

In the Growing Up Thinking Scientifically after-school program based in Santa Fe, N.M., students design, create and test computer models to examine...

Youth Civic Development & Education

Sports-Related Concussions in Youth: Improving the Science, Changing the Culture

Improving the Health, Safety, and Well-Being of Young Adults

All Together Now: Collaboration and Innovation for Youth Engagement

Extended Learning Time

  Beginning this school year, 35 schools in five states — Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, and Tennessee — will take part...

How Children’s Savings Accounts Catapult Kids to College

Jonathan Cabrera working on the Computer Numerical Control machine. Photo courtesy Rochester Institute of Technology/National Technical for the Deaf. When 20-year-old Jonathan Cabrera...

One Pilot Program

A community collaborates to help families save for college  Read the main bar story How Children’s Savings Accounts Catapult Kids to College Under...

Taking Food from the Mouths of Children

A coincidence of timing last week highlighted the contrast between the needs of hungry families in America and the political will in...

Increasing Access to Higher Education

Mynecia Taylor, 18, studies for the ACT at her apartment on January 6, in St. Louis, Miss. Taylor opted out of foster...

Essential Resources and Programs for Achieving Higher Education

The National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth published “College Access and Success for Students Experiencing Homelessness: A Toolkit...

Hands-On Help for Higher Ed

Anthon Smith, executive director of Seattle Education Access, and other experts shared the following tips for service providers and programs wanting to...

Decreasing High School Dropout Rates Could Save Billions in Medicaid Expenses

The United States could save billions in annual Medicaid costs simply by cutting the nation’s total number of high school dropouts in...

Well and Well-Off: Decreasing Medicaid and Health-Care Costs by Increasing Educational Attainment

-Full report- Author(s):  Alliance for Excellent Education Bill DeBaun Martens Roc Dr. Peter Muennig – Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health...

Higher Interest Rates Leave Some Students Uneasy about Taking on More College Debt

Americans owe nearly a trillion dollars in outstanding student loans, according to a 2012 announcement from the Federal Reserve Bank of New...

A New Direction: Our Changing Relationship with Driving and the Implications for America’s Future