On the eve of the first-ever White House Summit on Community Colleges, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced that they will be putting $34.8 million ...
Most new jobs will require more than a high school education, yet fewer than half of Americans under 30 have a postsecondary degree of any kind. Recent state budget ...
What started out as a humble trade school turned into the best community college in America. Saint Paul College, a community college in Minnesota, beat out hundreds ...
The Department of Education released a video profiling Samantha Hernandez, a sophomore at California State University Dominguez Hills, and shows the support she ...
A Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) report proposes a set of policies meant to dramatically increase the number of students who enter and complete some form of ...
The New York Times reports that despite rising tuition and student-loan debt levels, the long-term payoff from earning a college degree is growing, according to a ...
In Michigan, President Obama announces the American Graduation Initiative, a historic investment in our community colleges that will help prepare Americans for the ...
The General Educational Development test or GED is getting new attention from education reformers who want to update the degree after finding that passing the ...
In response to a call by the Iowa Board of Regents to increase four-year graduation rates, the three state universities have beefed up student advising, improved ...
Funding based on graduations rather than enrollment could be a good idea for Illinois state colleges and universities, members of a commission agreed. But the ...
To motivate kids to go to college and take a chunk out of the ever-increasing
cost, high schools are coming up with innovative ways to help students get a
jump ...
Here's an in-depth look at how a group of charter schools are working with homeless students who have dropped out of or been expelled from public schools -- and ...
This Data Quality Campaign
webinar will talk about how some states, public colleges and universities are
using research-driven data to improve student achievement and ...
Educators
today regularly use streaming video and other online multimedia resources in
the classroom to enliven instruction, spark discussion, and engage ...
Factory owners have been adding
jobs slowly but steadily since the beginning of the year, giving a lift
to the fragile economic recovery. And because they laid off ...
The Youth Transition Funders Group, an affiinty group of more than 30 national and regional foundations, has mastered the most sensitive and essential messaging in ...
This summer, it’s time to take stock, to think, and maybe catch up on some reading. Jan Richter says a book about the 1920s has some relevant lessons for child and ...