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May 15, 2013 Youth Voices: Young, Ambitious and Homeless

Two brave youth with ambition and a desire to succeed share how the barriers of homelessness affected their pathways to education and employment

May 6, 2013 Let's Get Fiscal: The Cliff, the Compromise and You

What the "fiscal cliff" and compromises will mean for children, youth and families.

May 2, 2013 Bi-Annual Survey of Young Americans’ Attitudes toward Politics and Public Service

In its bi-annual survey, the Harvard Institute of Politics reveals that Millennials are becoming more entrenched in their political views. The ...

May 2, 2013 Opinion: Why Student Evaluations Matter

Thomas Kane, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution Brown Center on Education Policy, says that student surveys are ubiquitous in higher education as a means of ...

April 29, 2013 Teacher Value-Added: Do We Want a Ten Percent Solution?

“Value-added”—a shorthand for judging teachers based on their students’ scores on standardized tests—has been a bone of contention in ...

April 23, 2013 Pennsylvania Leadership Teams Up to Help Struggling Students

A new initiative in Pennsylvania, led by their first lady, aims to keep students on track to graduate acros the state.

April 3, 2013 The 10 Ideas Series: Roosevelt Campus Network

The Roosevelt Institute | Campus Network is proud to announcethe release of the 2013 10 Ideas Series, our premier annual publication featuring over ...

April 2, 2013 You Can't Build Peace with a Piece: April Action & More

Youth across the country are leading a movement for solutions to gun violence that work.

March 20, 2013 Why Gifted, Low-Income Students Don't Go To The Best Colleges

Research shows that vast majority of low-income students (nearly 70 percent) attending elite colleges hail from just 15 large metropolitan areas. What makes those ...

March 20, 2013 How Well Are American Students Learning? The 2013 Brown Center Report

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 ...

March 20, 2013 Oregon: Can Better Organization Produce More Graduates?

Under Oregon Governor Kitzhaber’s education overhaul, which he launched in 2011, every Oregon student will have to meet academic milestones—kindergarten ...

March 19, 2013 Kentucky's Kindergarteners: 1/3 Unprepared

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 ...

March 19, 2013 Department of Education Could Put Cracks in the Credit Hour

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 ...

March 8, 2013 New Mexico: First State With Pre-School Funding Constitutionally Guaranteed?

New Mexico is weighing a bill that could make it the country's first state to explicitly protect early education funding in its constitution.

March 7, 2013 Tips for Principals from Chicago High School Students

What Kids Can Do reports on the Mikva Challenge youth's recommendations to their local Chicago principals.

March 5, 2013 The Opportunity Index: Does your Zip Code Matter More than your GPA?

Opportunity Nation's innovative measuring system to analyze opportunity for youth in counties, cities and states.

March 1, 2013 Building a Grad Nation 2013: Ending the High School Dropout Epidemic

The most comprehensive graduation research report of late found that for the first time the U.S. is on track to meet the national Grad Nation goal of a 90 percent ...

February 27, 2013 DOCUMENTARY: The Raising of America

The Raising of America, a documenatry, will reframe the way we look at early child health and development.

February 26, 2013 A 2013 Federal Education Policy Update (Archived Webinar)

The Alliance for Excellent Education held a webinar that provided an update on what’s happening with education policy in Washington, DC in 2013, as well as ...

February 21, 2013 Pump Up the Volume: Original Youth Music & Media

Young people are taking to artistic mediums to share what they think about what they are seeing, hearing and learning. With a beat, some serious editing skills and a ...

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