A great deal of attention has been paid to the issue of rising costs in higher education. A variety of explanations are in the public discourse, but the media often ...
February 2013 marks a month when students, educators, stakeholder groups, and even regulators will highlight what works in career and technical education (CTE). The ...
The Nation shares reflections of student movements all over the country focused on student debt, election and voting rights for college students, coal, big ...
Connecticut policymakers spend a lot of time talking about “the achievement gap.” Unfortunately, that discussion often gets stuck on test scores and curriculum. We ...
For 35 years, YouthBuild has proven the power of combining work, learning, service, and leadership development to empower young people to transform their lives and ...
Amid the gun control debates, a central issue for those who care about children and youth: In too many communities across the U.S., our kids have never grown up with ...
A new video features unscripted voices and experiences of young Americans who know they have a stake in the next four years. Children and youth ages 5 to 25 from ...
In a time of fiscal restraint, an unemployment crisis among our young people, and a skills gap that hurts our businesses and hampers our recovery, it is vital that ...
The federal student aid system is an assortment of grants, loans, campus-based aid, tax incentives, and other policies aimed at increasing access to postsecondary ...
The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is a free online application that anyone applying to college can fill out. The application puts you in ...
In 2004, Lumina Foundation for Education launched an innovative national reform initiative, Achieving the Dream (ATD), with the purpose of increasing the persistence ...
Young Invincibles interviewed thousands of college students on student debt - here are their finding and policy recommendations based on what they heard.
Record shares of young adults are completing high school, going to college and finishing college, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of newly available ...
Many young veterans who have served in war zones are finding themselves living in a civilian world that not only follows a different pace and structure, but too often ...
Jared Bernstein, former Chief Economist and Economic Advisor to VP Biden, says to understand what the current policy debate means for poverty, low-income programs, ...
