All posts tagged "College & Careers"

Widespread Worry in Chicago About Safety of Children as Strike Continues

Following another Chicago summer during which many youth were slain in gang or drug disputes, there was concern on both sides of...

Higher Education: Gaps in Access and Persistence Study

Research Shows Suspensions Don’t Work

For my family, high school has been a crazy mix of testosterone, education and a bunch of kids with low levels of...

Truancy in Texas

For Diane Tran, 17, there just weren’t enough hours in the day. The Texas honor student maintained stellar grades, while holding down...

Americus

M. K. Reed, art by Jonathan Hill First Second/Roaring Brook Press 216 pages As the shortest kid in his class in Americus,...

Counselors Expect More Undocumented Students to Seek College

Only 5 percent of undocumented students who graduate from U.S. high schools go on to college, according to an oft-cited 2004 report...

Schools Cannot Do It Alone

The start of the academic year provides a good opportunity for us as youth workers to assess the state of our partnerships...

Upcoming Presentation Examines Role of New Technologies in Elementary Education

This Thursday, the New America Foundation will be holding an event in Washington, D.C. titled Getting Schooled by a Third-Grader: What Kids’ Gaming,...

Time to Stop Outsourcing Our Kids’ Jobs.

  In mid-July, during a visit to Martha’s Vineyard, the beautiful island off the coast of Massachusetts, I met two students from...

Teaching Kids to Have Some Grit and Life Skills as Important as Academics says New Report

Children in K-12 schools in the United States need to learn not just the three Rs, but also focus more closely on...

The Economic Value of Opportunity Youth

Grim: Job Outlook for Young African-Americans

CHICAGO – Don’t tell D’Andray Jackson hope is lost; he’ll have none of it. His arms tucked inside a sweatshirt on a...

Grim: Job Outlook for Young African-Americans

CHICAGO – Don’t tell D’Andray Jackson hope is lost; he’ll have none of it. His arms tucked inside a sweatshirt on a...

Congress Reaches Deal on Student Loan Interest Rates

The new bill fixing student loan rates for one year may be a double-edged sword for some college students. While the new...

Has One Georgia County’s ‘Virtual’ Alternative School Failed Troubled Students?

In an experiment lasting one school year, Clayton County, Ga. handed out laptops to its most challenged students and sent them home...

July 1 Deadline Looms for Rise in Student Loan Interest Rates

WASHINGTON – With only 10 days to go before interest rates on some government-subsidized student loans are to double, Democrats and Republicans...

L.A. School Police, District Agree to Rethink Court Citations of Students

This story originally appeared on iWatchnews.org by the Center for Public Integrity. In the wake of critical news reports, Los Angeles school police and...

State’s DREAM Act Turned Over to Voters by Maryland’s High Court

WASHINGTON -The highest court in the state of Maryland has cleared the way for voters this fall to determine the fate of...

Experts Offer Tips on Preventing ‘Summertime Learning Loss’

It’s not exactly breaking news that over the course of summer breaks, many children tend to forget lessons they had learned over...

Study: Zero Tolerance Policies May Have Negative Health Implications for Students

A new report based on research of three California school districts suggests that school children exposed to so called, “zero tolerance” policies...