A new study suggests that a program run by the National Guard can help dropouts who are ready to reconnect and move...
National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education The importance of the U.S. having more college graduates and the role that community...
The Obama administration’s attempts to increase the integrity of institutions of higher education – especially among the companies that operate for-profit colleges...
The College Cost Disease: Higher Cost and Lower QualityRobert E. MartinEdward Elgar Pub, $99.95 Numerous books have been written lately suggesting that...
For nearly two decades, one of the hottest buzzwords in public education has been “zero-tolerance,” as in: Bring a weapon to school...
The National League of Cities (NLC) is joining a national effort to increase the number of low-income children who read at grade...
Parents trying to force establishment of a charter school in lieu of a failing elementary school using California’s so-called “parent trigger” law...
Real Men: Urban Teens Write About How to Be a ManYouth Communication226 pages. In 35 autobiographical stories and articles, 26 urban males...
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A Leader’s Guide to Real Men: Urban Teens Write About How to Be a ManYouth Communication and Development without Limits354 pages. also...
Expenditures for each elementary and secondary education pupil in fiscal year 2009 were essentially unchanged from the previous year, accounting for inflation. ...
Eight months after being stripped of a $10 million Department of Labor (DOL) grant it received to help dropouts and juvenile offenders...
National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) In the fall of 2010, the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) convened a...
Public Agenda Report for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Although when in high school the vast majority of young Americans say...
The Senate passed by a 79-20 margin today the Presidential Appointment Efficiency and Streamlining Act of 2011, which would remove the Senate...
Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) and National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS) Although the number of high school...
The leader of an advocacy media organization dedicated to coverage of child welfare is the Los Angeles Press Club’s Online Journalist of...
Northwestern University Although many policy makers and those in academia concur that after-school programs are important for students, participation in these programs...
We members of a special bipartisan commission to help reform the federal appointments process support the enactment of the Presidential Appointment Efficiency...
***Day 879 of the Obama administration and still no nominee to serve as administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency...