Voluntary summer-learning programs can help narrow academic achievement gaps between children from low-income families and those from high-income families, a report from the Wallace Foundation and the RAND Corporation finds.
Judith Shapiro, president of the Teagle Foundation, says it's certainly understandable that scalability has become the holy grail of higher education reform, but the dismissive attitude toward so-called boutique programs presents an occasion for...
Tenured professor jobs are even harder to come by, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation program officer Andrew Bengochea said, and Latino students need more institutional and foundational support to persist, particularly in humanities disciplines.
Almost 90 percent of high school graduates spend some time in college, but only 40 percent of those students complete a bachelor's degree in four years and 60 percent in six, according to a new report about undergraduate education.
On Wednesday, about five years after the launch of the Young Men’s Initiative, the City Council will hold an oversight hearing to examine the status of YMI and its effectiveness nearly three years into the de Blasio administration.
A new study of 150 black youths from some of Baltimore’s lowest-income neighborhoods shows that young people who attended for-profit institutions ended up in more debt and with fewer job prospects.
The program will be implemented through Japan’s local school network and is intended to help children, and the adults in their lives, acquire healthy financial skills and behaviors.