Teens in California can now receive counseling from licensed social workers without the consent of their parents after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed...
The price of going to any type of college was up again this year, but the actual cost went down for many...
The St. Paul, Minn.-based National Youth Leadership Council (NYLC) is organizing a national coalition of leaders to think about education policy and...
The Department of Education (DOE) notified schools and colleges today that it intends to penalize systems that refuse to address pervasive problems...
Student Debt and the Class of 2009 The Project on Student Debt This report, fifth in an annual series that examines cumulative...
Speaking Out: Latino Youth on Discrimination in the United States National Council of La Raza Many Latino teens feel regularly stereotyped in...
Hours of OpportunityThe RAND Corporation Coordination among institutions that provide after-school activities to youths might be the key to better and more...
Minorities in Higher Education 2010American Council on Education Higher education attainment rates for college-aged African-Americans and Hispanics have dropped across the board,...
Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation: America’s Science and Technology Talent at the Crossroads National Academies Although minorities are the fastest-growing subset of the...
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...
President Obama on Tuesday signed an executive order focused on boosting college success among Hispanics. The order renewed the White House Initiative...
By Patrick Boyle Waiting for Superman, the 100-minute diatribe about the failures of American public education, has won praise from as high...
The governing body for Georgia’s state colleges and universities banned illegal immigrants from attending the most selective state schools, as several other...
With the federal and state governments spending billions of dollars to improve schools and teachers, a group of thinkers from the education...
Fielding a wide range of questions in a youth town hall meeting on Thursday, President Barack Obama best summed up the day’s...
The American Opportunity Tax CreditU.S. Department of the Treasury A tax credit enacted as part of the federal economic recovery act in...
America After 3PM: From Big Cities to Small Towns Afterschool Alliance Cost and lack of transportation continue to be among the top...
The Harlem Children’s Zone has been hailed around the nation as a model for community-based education reform, and President Obama created a...
Stronger Federal Oversight Needed to Enforce Ban on Incentive Payments to School Recruiters U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) The federal government has...
By Kati Haycock Thirty years ago, the average American could still earn a middle-class wage with only a high school education. But...