Civic Pathways Out of Poverty and Into OpportunityPhilanthropy for Active Civic Engagement (PACE) The majority of children living in poverty are of...
Ed/Jobs Notes, Week of 11/8/10 Sat in on the first day of last week’s Department of Education public meetings on the gainful...
The Department of Education’s public meetings on the gainful employment rule Thursday provided a pedestal for numerous, and repetitive, arguments on yet-to-be...
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded the National League of Cities to work with five cities (Corpus Christi, Texas; Hartford, Conn.;...
Educators can adapt many of the best practices the military applies to instruct secondary students enrolled in a cross-section of programs, including...
Child Welfare Susan Hamilton, the head of Connecticut’s child welfare agency, has told staff that she will resign Jan. 4, when Gov....
The U.S. Department of Education established the What Works Clearinghouse in 2002 to serve as a “central and trusted source of scientific...
I heard a colleague suggest that youth-serving agencies are trying to hitch their wagons to the education-reform train; well, more specifically, riding...
IridescentLos Angeles(323) 284-5200www.iridescentlearning.org Objective: Foster curiosity and inspire self-confidence in young people with limited access, unlocking doors to their futures and preparing...
Work smarter, not harder. It’s a principle that guides successful businesses. How can you streamline expenses and eliminate duplication of effort while...
At Bunker Hill Community College, fall enrollment broke another record, topping 12,000 students. To accommodate so many students, the Boston school now...
The Department of Education has notified schools and colleges that it intends to penalize systems that refuse to address pervasive problems with...
Hundreds of activists converged on Washington in late September, pushing for what is beginning to seem like only a dream: passage of...
Community college financial aid offices are struggling to find the resources to deal with a surge in the number of applicants and...
College Access & Opportunity Guide, 2011 EditionCenter for Student OpportunitySourcebooks Inc.417 pages. For low-income, first-generation, college-bound students who often have difficulty succeeding...
American Council on Education Higher education attainment rates for college-aged African-Americans and Hispanics have dropped across the board, according to this report...
PolicyLink This report, by the Oakland, Calif.-based PolicyLink, finds that community colleges “are one of [California’s] key vehicles for economic mobility and...
American Institutes for Research Drawing on the Obama administration’s plan to implement changes that would move the country up from its current...
A nearly 700-page federal report says character education – a pillar of former president George W. Bush’s youth policy – does not...
The Department of Education put schools on notice this week that failure to police a pattern of bullying could result in a...