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For-Profit College Reform Leads to Increase in Short Selling
Controversy continues to swirl around for-profit colleges as the behind-the-scenes role of hedge funds on the industry is called into question, according...
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Lumina Foundation Shifts Focus to Policy Making
The Lumina Foundation for Education, one of the best-known higher-education philanthropies, is shifting its focus from program initiatives to policy development, according...
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New Approach to the Need for Remedial Education
Educators and policymakers are beginning to focus on the question of why so many youths entering college need remedial courses in reading,...
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New Approach to the Need for Remedial Education
Educators and policymakers are beginning to focus on the question of why so many youths entering college need remedial courses in reading,...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Washington Post Examines Gates Foundation’s Influence on Education Reform
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has helped plant the seed of national education standards and merit-based pay for teachers with nearly...
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The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
In 2008, 5.7 million children were living in extreme poverty – subsisting on half or less than what constitutes poverty in this...
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Residential Instability and the McKinney-Vento Homeless Children and Education Program: What We Know, Plus Gaps in Research
This brief summarizes a study conducted by the Urban Institute of the McKinney-Vento Education for Homeless Children and Youth (EHCY) program and...
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Report: Declining College Degree Prospects For Low-Income Youths
In the coming years, low- and moderate-income youth will find it increasingly difficult to afford the cost of a college degree because...
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AfterZones: Creating a Citywide System to Support and Sustain High-Quality After-School Programs
Public/Private Ventures & The Wallace Foundation P/PV analyzes the success and impediments in implementing one of the country’s more well-known citywide...
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Transforming the High School Experience: How New York City’s New Small Schools Are Boosting Student Achievement and Graduation Rates
MDRC This report confirms that New York City’s small schools, introduced in 2002 after several underperforming public high schools were shut down,...
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Is It Live or Is It Internet? Experimental Estimates of the Effects of Online Instruction on Student Learning
National Bureau of Economic Research Results of a recent unprecedented experiment found that Hispanic students, male students and lower-achieving students benefit...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Hundreds Vie for Promise Neighborhoods Planning Grants
More than 300 organizations are vying for 20 planning grants worth $500,000 each through the Obama Administration’s Promise Neighborhood initiative, data released...
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Do Students Get Hurt by Fuzzy Credits?
Washington – With $100 billion in federal student loans and grants at stake, House Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller (D-Calif.)...
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Guest Opinion Essay
For-Profit College Reforms Stir Debate
The U.S. Department of Education is proposing new rules to oversee the growing field of for-profit higher education, but it kicked the...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Jobs Forecast Predicts Increasing Need for College Degrees
The vast majority of American jobs in the next few years will require some type of post-secondary training or degree, meaning that...
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Weekly Notes: Quiet in the Capital, Upcoming conferences and more
***On the surface, all is quiet on the JJ front in the nation’s capital. No news on a nominee to lead OJJDP,...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Boy Scouts Makes Volunteers Learn About Sex Abuse
The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) last week ordered all of its volunteers to go through training about sex abuse, after years...
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Congress Considers New Bankruptcy Rules on Private College Loans
A possible fight over college loans is looming in Congress, but not over the maximum a student can borrow. Instead, members of...
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Addressing the Unmet Educational Needs of Children and Youth in the Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare Systems
Center for Juvenile Justice Reform, Georgetown Public Policy Institute Youths who go through both the child welfare and juvenile justice systems often...
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Public School Graduates and Dropouts From the Common Core of Data: School Year 2007-2008
National Center for Education Statistics A recent report from the National Center for Education Statistics shows that the Averaged Freshman Graduation...
