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Tax Credit Makes College More Affordable

The American Opportunity Tax CreditU.S. Department of the Treasury A tax credit enacted as part of the federal economic recovery act in...

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Why Parents Don’t Send Kids to After-School Programs

America After 3PM: From Big Cities to Small Towns Afterschool Alliance Cost and lack of transportation continue to be among the top...

Problems at Harlem Children’s Zone

The Harlem Children’s Zone has been hailed around the nation as a model for community-based education reform, and President Obama created a...

GAO Urges Crackdown on College Recruitment Violations

Stronger Federal Oversight Needed to Enforce Ban on Incentive Payments to School Recruiters U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) The federal government has...

Building a Path to College Success

By Kati Haycock Thirty years ago, the average American could still earn a middle-class wage with only a high school education. But...

A Stronger Nation through Higher Education

Lumina Foundation for Education This report explains the Lumina Foundation for Education’s “Big Goal” – that the proportion of the population that...

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Obama Peace Prize Money Funds Scholars

Proceeds from President Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize award are being used by the Hispanic Scholarship Fund to further its goal of...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

White House Hosts Community College Summit

President Barack Obama on Tuesday ripped into what he said are Republican plans to trim funding for education by 20 percent to...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

The Power of the Education-Industry Partnership

The Power of the Education-Industry Partnership: Fostering Innovation in Collaboration Between Community Colleges and Businesses The Center for American Progress Collaboration between...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Pathways Out of Poverty for Vulnerable Californians

PolicyLink On the same day the White House hosts a summit on community colleges, PolicyLink – a research group that advocates for...

Federal Student Aid Strategic Plan FY 2011-15

U.S. Department of Education Federal Student Aid, a division of the Department of Education, has developed five strategic goals to be implemented...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

College Loan Defaults Rise

More people are defaulting on their student loans, as college graduates find it harder to get jobs, the U.S. Education Department reported...

Guest Opinion Essay

Reconnecting Youths Without Diplomas

An avalanche of important attention has been paid to America’s dropout crisis – the reasons for it and how to reverse it....

Guest Opinion Essay

No Reform Without Education

The recent defeat at the polls of Washington, D.C., Mayor Adrian Fenty demonstrates an important fact that philanthropists and school reformers have...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

3 Mentoring Studies

Over the past two decades policymakers began looking at schools as a delivery model for health and human services for students and...

News

For-Profit Skepticism

For-profit career colleges have mushroomed into a multibillion-dollar industry by building their brand identity around customer service. Through expensive marketing campaigns, they...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

HHS to Tighten Head Start Standards

The Department of Health and Human Services, expanding the Obama administration’s policy of making federal programs prove they are effective, has announced...

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U.S. Dropout Guru

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...

Guest Opinion Essay