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Senate Committee to Consider ‘No Child Left Behind’ Rewrite

The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will begin work tomorrow on reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, two...

News

Harkin Files Comprehensive ESEA Rewrite in Senate

A comprehensive new Elementary and Secondary Education Act draft, filed today by Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Tom Harkin...

Everyday Horrors

I read about a horror story last month. It wasn’t one of those cases where a child died even though the case...

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College Completion: The Latino Edition

The College Completion Agenda – Latino Edition College Board This new reports looks at what can be done to increase the number...

► Reports

College Completion: The Latino Edition

The College Completion Agenda – Latino Edition College Board This new reports looks at what can be done to increase the number...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

House Approps Would Eliminate AmeriCorps, Increase Head Start Funding

The House Appropriations Committee made public today a proposed spending bill that would eliminate AmeriCorps, increase funding for Head Start and limit...

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Kondracke to Retire as Head of America’s Promise

Marguerite Kondracke, president and CEO of America’s Promise Alliance, announced today that she plans to retire and the organization has begun a...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Study Says U.S. Lags Behind Developed Countries on Youth Investments

The United States should establish a cabinet-level youth department to why the country is falling behind most other developed countries on youth...

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...

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The Impact of Bullying Climate on Schoolwide Academic Performance

Virginia Youth Violence Project The pervasiveness of bullying has an effect on the academic performance of students, according to findings from the...

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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...

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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

Weekly Notes: Day 960; attempts to expand on Graham v Florida; and more

***Day 960 of the Obama administration and still no nominee to serve as administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency...

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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...

Book Reviews

Drop That Knowledge: Youth Radio Stories

Drop That Knowledge: Youth Radio StoriesElisabeth Soep and Vivian ChávezUniversity of California Press224 pages. Most National Public Radio (NPR) listeners have heard...

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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