Lumina Foundation for Education This report explains the Lumina Foundation for Education’s “Big Goal” – that the proportion of the population that...
Proceeds from President Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize award are being used by the Hispanic Scholarship Fund to further its goal of...
President Barack Obama on Tuesday ripped into what he said are Republican plans to trim funding for education by 20 percent to...
The Power of the Education-Industry Partnership: Fostering Innovation in Collaboration Between Community Colleges and Businesses The Center for American Progress Collaboration between...
PolicyLink On the same day the White House hosts a summit on community colleges, PolicyLink – a research group that advocates for...
U.S. Department of Education Federal Student Aid, a division of the Department of Education, has developed five strategic goals to be implemented...
More people are defaulting on their student loans, as college graduates find it harder to get jobs, the U.S. Education Department reported...
An avalanche of important attention has been paid to America’s dropout crisis – the reasons for it and how to reverse it....
The recent defeat at the polls of Washington, D.C., Mayor Adrian Fenty demonstrates an important fact that philanthropists and school reformers have...
Over the past two decades policymakers began looking at schools as a delivery model for health and human services for students and...
For-profit career colleges have mushroomed into a multibillion-dollar industry by building their brand identity around customer service. Through expensive marketing campaigns, they...
The Department of Health and Human Services, expanding the Obama administration’s policy of making federal programs prove they are effective, has announced...
Asked how he finds time to research poor-performing schools, advocate for policy reform, operate his own built-from-scratch high school and oversee the...
It is one thing for the poet Alexander Pope to suggest that “hope springs eternal in the human breast.” It is another...
When I consider the role the private sector plays in addressing educational and social service needs in society, I vacillate between whether...
Debt-Free U By Zac BissonnettePortfolio Trade304 pages If American higher education is about to get its comeuppance, as many experts are predicting,...
In a politically charged Senate hearing room thick with dueling news releases and high-priced lobbyists, Sen. Tom Harkin said Thursday he will...
The Indianapolis-based Lumina Foundation for Education continues its college completion improvement strategy with $14.8 million in grants over four years, divvied into...
The Rural Solution: How Community Schools Can Reinvigorate Rural Education Center for American Progress For the one in five students in the...
Breaking the Mold: Combining Community Schools with Expanded Learning Time to Help Educationally Disadvantaged Students Center for American Progress Students who...