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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...

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