All posts tagged "OST"

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Virtual Financial Office Manages Aid for All Connecticut

  Community college financial aid offices are struggling to find the resources to deal with a surge in the number of applicants and...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  College Access & Opportunity Guide, 2011 Edition

  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...

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  Minorities in Higher Education 2010

  American Council on Education Higher education attainment rates for college-aged African-Americans and Hispanics have dropped across the board, according to this report...

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  Pathways Out of Poverty for Vulnerable Californians: Policies that Prepare the Workforce for Middle-Skill Infrastructure Jobs

  PolicyLink This report, by the Oakland, Calif.-based PolicyLink, finds that community colleges “are one of [California’s] key vehicles for economic mobility and...

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  Finishing the First Lap: The Cost of First-Year Student Attrition in America’s Four-Year Colleges and Universities

  American Institutes for Research Drawing on the Obama administration’s plan to implement changes that would move the country up from its current...

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  Report Questions the Value of Character Education

  A nearly 700-page federal report says character education – a pillar of former president George W. Bush’s youth policy – does not...

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  Use of Title IX Has Worked against Sexual Orientation Bullying

  The Department of Education put schools on notice this week that failure to police a pattern of bullying could result in a...

• California Teens Can Seek Counseling Without Consent

  Teens in California can now receive counseling from licensed social workers without the consent of their parents after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed...

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  College Board Report Finds Tuition, Grant Aid Increasing

  The price of going to any type of college was up again this year, but the actual cost went down for many...

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  New Coalition to Focus on Service-Learning’s Role in Education

  The St. Paul, Minn.-based National Youth Leadership Council (NYLC) is organizing a national coalition of leaders to think about education policy and...

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  Education Department to Schools: Protect Against Bullying or Risk Federal Funding

  The Department of Education (DOE) notified schools and colleges today that it intends to penalize systems that refuse to address pervasive problems...

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  College Student Debt Increases

  Student Debt and the Class of 2009 The Project on Student Debt This report, fifth in an annual series that examines cumulative...

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  Latino Youth Hopeful Despite Stereotyping In Schools

  Speaking Out: Latino Youth on Discrimination in the United States National Council of La Raza Many Latino teens feel regularly stereotyped in...

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  City-wide Coordination of After-School Programs Helps Kids

  Hours of OpportunityThe RAND Corporation Coordination among institutions that provide after-school activities to youths might be the key to better and more...

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  Blacks, Hispanics Trail in Higher Ed; Women Lead

  Minorities in Higher Education 2010American Council on Education Higher education attainment rates for college-aged African-Americans and Hispanics have dropped across the board,...

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  Help Minorities Succeed in STEM Education

  Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation: America’s Science and Technology Talent at the Crossroads National Academies Although minorities are the fastest-growing subset of the...

• Schools Feed Dinner to Low-Income Youths

  While schools have long provided free and reduced-priced breakfast and lunch to low-income youths, public schools in Washington, D.C., have gone much...

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  Obama Expands Effort to Boost Hispanic Higher Ed

  President Obama on Tuesday signed an executive order focused on boosting college success among Hispanics. The order renewed the White House Initiative...

• Waiting for Superman: An Education Rescue, or a Hit Job?

  By Patrick Boyle     Waiting for Superman, the 100-minute diatribe about the failures of American public education, has won praise from as high...

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  Georgia Bans Illegal Immigrants at Top State Universities

  The governing body for Georgia’s state colleges and universities banned illegal immigrants from attending the most selective state schools, as several other...