All posts tagged "College & Careers"

Youth and Work: Restoring Teen and Young Adult Connections to Opportunity

Accrediting Agency’s Role in Education Spurs Debate

Contentious, dysfunctional, divisive and ineffective. Perpetual paralysis. An undercurrent of mistrust and conflict. A theme…of doubt and lack of confidence. Those harsh...

Chess Organization Positions Students to Make Right Moves

Program is much more than tournaments and trophies; it helps low-income youth get into college. When Eriberto Guzman decided in 2009 as...

Adviser Pushes Students to put Life Stories on Paper

When the time comes for Evan Forster to help young people who participate in the College Bound program at Chess-in-the-Schools to craft...

Where Foxfire Still Glows

It’s first period, in late September, and students in the Foxfire Magazine class at Rabun County High School, in northeast Georgia, are doing what many...

In the Wake of Tragedy, Should Schools Have Armed Personnel on Campus?

The national debate about gun-control laws was re-ignited following last week’s tragic Newtown, Conn. school shooting, with proponents of both sides taking...

Excellent Curriculum and Coached Teacher Teams Produce Success

With new standards and assessments for students being adopted across the country, many education groups are urgently trying to demonstrate that their...

Students in Coaching-Centered Writing Program Post Statistically Significant Gains

Wednesday, New York-based nonprofit Teaching Matters released a new report detailing pilot study results from its Writing Matters curriculum.  In a two-year...

Exploring the Use of Pell Grants To Go From Prison to College

NEWARK, N.J. – Recidivism could be cut and public dollars could be saved if lawmakers lifted a longstanding federal ban on Pell...

New Study Examines Public Perceptions, Student Needs Regarding Higher Education in America

Last week, the Brookings Institution held an event titled “Innovation Imperative: The Future of Higher Education,” and centered around a new study...

Large Grant Brings Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Programs to Boston-area Schools

In November, two Boston-area hospitals announced plans to commit $1 million to the Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) in order to implement...

Young Americans Earning Four-Year Degrees, Graduating High School in Record Numbers

More young adults than ever are graduating from high school, attending college and obtaining bachelor’s degrees, says the Pew Research Center.  According...

Will the 2012 Election Impact Education in America?

With the presidential election settled, one education expert summarized his prediction for the next four years of education in the United States...

Girls with Below-Average Reading Skills More Likely to Become Teen Moms, Says New Study

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania recently released a new study that examines the links between literacy and teen pregnancy, finding that...

According to Survey, Majority of Both College-Educated and Non-College-Educated Young People Leaning Towards Obama

President Barack Obama holds a commanding lead among young adults ages 18 to 29, with days to go until the 2012 presidential...

AAUW Says A Year After Graduating, Females Making Almost 20 Percent Less Than Males

A new report released by the American Association of University Women (AAUW) finds that one year after college graduation, women in 2009 were...

Report Card on U.S. Children “We can do Better”

Nearly two years ago, more than a dozen welfare experts trooped to Capitol Hill to testify about challenges to American children and...

Documentary Follows Brooklyn’s Championship Middle School Chess Team

The trials and triumphs of the chess team at New York City’s Intermediate School 318 in Brooklyn — dubbed “the most successful...

Grants Awarded: July – September 2012

    Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation http://www.gatesfoundation.org/ (206) 709-3100 Seattle, WA Athabasca University, to provide conference support to Massive Open Online...

United States Lags Behind Global Rivals in Education

As public-school teachers picket outside classrooms in Chicago for the first time in 25 years, a new report confirms that the United...