All posts tagged "OST"

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Obama’s 2012 Budget and Youth: A Breakdown

  President Barack Obama released his 2012 budget today, which would fund most youth-focused programs and agencies at equal or greater levels to...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Cut-Heavy House Spending Would Eliminate AmeriCorps and YouthBuild, Among Others

  Late Friday, the House Appropriations Committee released its proposed continuing resolution bill for fiscal 2011 spending, which includes plans to eliminate completely...

• News

  Community College Enrollment Growth Slows

  Enrollment growth at community colleges slowed this fall, rising just 3.2 percent, dramatically less than the 11 percent and 17 percent increases...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  GAO Finds Uncertainty, Overlap Among Federal Job Training Programs

  A Government Accountability Office report on federally funded employment and training programs, more than half of which serve youth, shows the roughly...

• News

  GAO Says Internal Review Found No Bias in For-Profit Report

  The Government Accountability Office said today that an internal review of the need to issue a revised report on recruiting by for-profit...

• News

  Even Harvard Agrees: Four-Year Colleges Aren’t for Everyone

  The one American college perhaps most synonymous with traditional postsecondary ideals has issued a report championing community colleges over four-year schools in...

• News

  For-Profit College Coalition Sues over GAO Report

  The Coalition for Educational Success, a group of for-profit colleges that earlier issued a report blasting  the methods and findings of a...

• News

  Enrollment at For-Profit Colleges Rose 25 Percent in 2009

  College enrollment rose more than 7 percent in the 2009-2010 school year, rising from 19.6 million in the fall of 2008 to...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Four Fund Teach for America $100 Million Endowment

  Teach for America (TFA), the national corps of recent college graduate K-12 teachers placed in needy areas, will set up a $100...

• ► Reports

  Piling It On

  National Consumer Law Center  Students planning to attend for-profit colleges are finding it easier to borrow money from the institution itself to...

• College Isn’t Helping Ill-Prepared Students Catch Up

  Everyone over age 40 knows that education is wasted on the young. So why are people getting so worked up about a...

• News

  Forms and Finances

  It’s crunch time for student financial aid assistance centers as thousands of volunteer and paid financial aid experts work with first-generation, low-income...

• News

  ‘Gainful Employment’ Battle Rages On

  Amid of flurry of legal actions and ad campaigns seeking elimination or softening/toughening and quick enforcement of the Department of Education’s proposed...

• News

  Proposed Profiles Set New Way to Define Degrees

  A new “degree profile” that proposes standards of critical thinking and knowledge that should be associated with earning associate, bachelor’s and master’s...

• News

  Revised Gainful Employment Rule Due in “Early Part” of 2011

  The U.S. Department of Education will release final changes to the so-called gainful employment rule affecting for-profit colleges in the “early part...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  For-Profits Specialize in Healthcare Fields, but Not the Ones Most Needed

  Training students to fill jobs in the so-called allied health professions – a category that includes scores of occupations other than doctor,...

• News

  Study: No Clear Relationship between Education Spending and Achievement

  School district spending has no clear relationship to student achievement in more than half the country, according to a new study from...

• News

  USDA Proposes New School Lunch Standards

  The U.S. Department of Agriculture has issued proposed nutritional guidelines under the Healthy and Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 that will require...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Let’s Help Youth Who Are in Doubt and in Debt

  Once again, young people are bearing the brunt of our failure to monitor effectively the institutions they go to for help. You...

• News

  For-Profit Colleges Intensify Lobbying on Proposed Rules

  A year of congressional hearings, bad publicity, falling enrollments and federal rule modifications has led to major changes in the for-profit private...