OST – Page 64 – Youth Today

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...

Opinion

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...

News

New Report Disputes GAO For-Profit Findings

A report commissioned by a coalition of for-profit schools challenges the findings of the Government Accountability Office’s report that found alleged fraud...

News