All posts tagged "College & Careers"

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Senate Approps Approves Health, Labor and Education Spending Bill

  Note: This story was updated on Sept. 29 The Senate Appropriation Committee approved a spending bill for the Departments of Education, Labor,...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Dropouts Face a Future with More Jobs But Less Options, Study Finds

  The number of jobs available to dropouts and high school graduates will go up this decade, but there also will be far...

• ► Reports

  Downward Mobility from the Middle Class: Waking Up from the American Dream

  The Pew Charitable Trusts One-third of Americans who grow up in a middle-class family, defined as between 30 percent and 70 percent...

• News

  College Default Rate Rises to 8.8 percent

  The overall two-year default rates of students with federal student loans rose to 8.8 percent last year, from 7 percent a year...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Obama Plan Includes Summer Jobs for Youth, Unemployment Protection for Families

  Note: This article was updated and corrected Sept. 9. President Barack Obama laid out a job creation plan tonight that includes funding...

• ► Newsmakers

  Newsmakers September 2011

  Nonprofits The Girl Scouts of the USA selected one of its own to succeed Kathy Cloninger as its chief executive officer. Anna...

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  Remedial Education

  Some call it the Bermuda Triangle of higher education. Some see it as a needless expense – double payment for students to...

• Book Reviews

  DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education

  DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs and the Coming Transformation of Higher EducationAnya KamenetzChelsea Green Publishing208 pages American higher education operates with what author...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  California Education Board Clarifies Regulations for State’s ‘Parent Trigger’ Law

  The California State Board of Education has tentatively approved more specific regulations on how the state’s parent trigger law will work.  The...

• News

  Collateral Damage

  What American news outlet hasn’t carried a heart-wrenching picture of a 5- or 6-year old sobbing uncontrollably as the father or mother...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Campaign Afoot Against Textbook Prices

  A rally in a Washington-area suburb last month officially launched the Textbook Rebellion, a campaign aimed at ensuring affordable textbooks for college...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Selling Eighth-Graders on College

  This summer, at the age of 36, I decided it was time to go back to college. I slept in the dorms,...

• News

  Obama Halts DREAM Act Deportations

  It won’t give any illegal immigrants a new passage to U.S. citizenship, but the Obama administration announced today that it will stop...

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  An Examination of Sex Differences in Relation to the Eating Habits and Nutrient Intakes of University Students

  National Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior College students aren’t eating even as much as a serving a day of fruits and...

• Top Headlines: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Top Headlines 8/10

  Child Welfare The top Miami administrator of Florida’s Department of Children and Families, who was reprimanded for the handling of the Barahona...

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  How the Effects of Postsecondary Remedial and Developmental Courses Vary by Level of Academic Preparation

  How the Effects of Postsecondary Remedial and Developmental Courses Vary by Level of Academic Participation National Center for Postsecondary Research This report...

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  A New Way of Measuring College Success

  Update:  Education Sector has just added all of the data used to determine the debt-to-degree ratio for almost 5,000 schools and programs....

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  The College Payoff: Education, Occupation, Lifetime Earnings

  The steady rise of college costs and the mounds of debt students are shouldering to pay those costs has given rise to...

• News

  Debt Ceiling Agreement Preserves Pell Grants — For Now

  The agreement reached Sunday night among Democratic and Republican leaders in the House and Senate provides specific funding for Pell Grants, but...

• News

  Debt Ceiling Agreement Preserves Pell Grants — For Now

  The agreement reached Sunday night among Democratic and Republican leaders in the House and Senate provides specific funding for Pell Grants, but...