By Andy Thomason. An expansive article by the Hechinger Report details just how often Pell Grant recipients fail to graduate at America’s largest colleges. The publication asked the country’s 50 largest public colleges and the 50 largest private colleges to disclose their six-year graduation rates for Pell-Grant recipients. More...
By Andrew Mytelka. Hillary Clinton focused on the importance of adequate child care for college students who are also parents in an appearance on Friday in Dubuque, Iowa, The New York Times reported. More...
By Mark Edmundson. It is no secret: Culture in the West has become progressively more practical, materially oriented, and skeptical. When I look out at my students, I see people who are in the process of choosing a way to make money and succeed, a strategy for getting on in life. More...
By . Building stronger links between educational institutions and employers is an important step towards improving education, raising the skills of the U.S. workforce, and expanding opportunity. The question is: how. More...
By . Jeremy is a technical director at Microsoft in Chicago, earning a good salary with eight years of seniority and success at the company. More...
By Arne Strand. Afghanistan illustrates how a country emerging from decades of war and in a continued state of conflict can have, together with its donors, a will to prioritize education. More...
By Seth Gershenson. The 2015 recipient of the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) National Teacher of the Year Award, Shanna Peeples, recently spoke about the importance of teachers believing in their students—and imparting their expectations to students—particularly students who doubt their ability to succeed academically. More...
By Maysa Jalbout. With almost half of all of out-of-school children around the world living in conflict-affected countries, the international aid community is facing pressure to not only increase the amount of funding available in these settings but to also determine how to channel and sustain funding for high numbers of refugee children in protracted crisis areas like the Syrian refugee conflict. More...
By . Out on the long presidential campaign trail, every candidate will say something like “children are the future of this nation.” So what are the prospects for our kids? The latest Kids Count report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation provides a mixed picture. More...
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