Federal financial aid is critical to student access and success in postsecondary education for many students, including most Latinos. However, current realities are ...
As states prepare their budgets for FY2014, they face the challenge of reinvesting in public higher education systems after years of damaging cuts — the product ...
Why is raising the federal minimum wage a powerful way for reducing family and child poverty in America? Jan lays out the facts so child advocates can join the fight.
In January 2009, the National Institute on Out-of-School Time (NIOST) at the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College, together with the University of ...
The Presidential Youth Council, composed of young Americans ages 16 to 24, will advise the President on the perspectives of youth, offer suggestions on how to make ...
Both obesity and food insecurity are important public health problems facing young children in the United States. A lack of affordable, nutritious foods is one of the ...
Over the next ten years, more than half of all jobs will require some education beyond high school. The majority of students entering college do not earn a college ...
This is the twelfth edition of the Brown Center Report that examines how well students in the U.S. is learning, and what policies can help improve the odds for all ...
A former foster youth is petitioning his home state of Connecticut provide foster kids with duffel bags, not trash bags, when they are moved from place to place.
Under Oregon Governor Kitzhaber’s education overhaul, which he launched in 2011, every Oregon student will have to meet academic milestones—kindergarten ...
ZERO TO THREE's policy brief, Building a Secure and Healthy Start: Family Leave in the Early Years, provides the latest data and new recommendations for ...
The U.S. Department of Education takes a critical step forward in moving towards a more flexible and innovative financial aid system—one that privileges (and ...
Elementary and secondary public schools are centers of nearly 100,000 communities across the United States, yet American citizens and public officials have a poor ...
Sarah Huff is one of The Corps Network 2013 Corpsmembers of the Year. She tells a powerful -- and humorous -- story of how a job of miserable conditions in a tough ...
The large majority of children entering kindergarten do not have the basic skills expected for their age, according to a survey of Kentucky's entering ...
You Can't Build Peace with a Piece, a campaign organized by young people of color in the Los Angeles area, released this comprehensive statement and recommendations ...
