California to spend more to educate poor, non-English speakers
Public schools in California would receive significantly more money to educate students from disadvantaged backgrounds under a deal announced on Tuesday that would dramatically reshape public school...
View ArticleSuccess With College-Completion Goal Hinges on Helping Minority Students
While progress is being made on the college-completion front, a new report from the Lumina Foundation says more needs to be done to support Latino and black students if the nation is going to meet its...
View ArticleThe Potential of Career and College Readiness and Exploration in Afterschool...
A high school diploma used to be enough to get by in the job market, but this is no longer the case. A Georgetown University study found that the percentage of jobs in the United States that require...
View ArticleBridging the male education gap
From the LA Times… In the ongoing discussion of how to boost the education and skill levels of the American workforce, one central issue is rarely addressed: the gap between male and female...
View ArticleFacebook Helps Bolster First-Generation College Students
From College Bound… For high school students who are the first in their family to consider going to college, Facebook can provide connections and confidence to help navigate the process, according to a...
View ArticleSalary Surfer site helps students gauge potential future earnings
From the LA Times: California community college students have a new website to help them choose fields of study — and provide a preview of their potential earning power. The Salary Surfer provides...
View ArticleEvaluation by ACT, Inc. Confirms Career & College Clubs Program Helps At-Risk...
A report issued today by ACT, Inc. indicates Career & College Clubs, a middle school peer-to-peer intervention, increases the likelihood at-risk students will make specific plans to succeed in high...
View ArticleEDITORIAL: College preparation: Close gap between rhetoric, reality
From The Press-Enterprise (Riverside, CA): California’s system of measuring school performance should not give secondary status to college readiness. But the state’s current approach obscures the...
View ArticleEarly-College High School Experience Linked to College Enrollment
From College Bound… A new multiyear study of students who attended 10 early-college high schools found they were significantly more likely to finish high school and enroll in college compared with...
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65% of New Job Vacancies Will Require Some Postsecondary Education and Training
From the Georgetown Public Policy Institute: Notwithstanding economic and political shocks, the economy will create 55 million new job openings over the next decade, according to a new report by the...
View ArticleEarly Saving for College Can Improve Student Success, Report Shows
From College Bound… For a young person, knowing that their families have saved money for college makes the idea of going real and possible. Early college savings accounts offer an alternative to...
View Article‘Active’ Student Engagement Goes Beyond Class Behavior, Study Finds
From Inside School Research… Some warning signs are easy to spot: It’s well-established that the kid goofing off in the back of the classroom, who plays hooky and turns in homework late, is disengaged,...
View ArticleEdCal Newspaper Highlights Career & College Clubs
From the June 17, 2013 edition of EdCal, the official newspaper of the California Association of School Administrators (ACSA): Program aims to empower middle school students to success in the future...
View ArticleCareer & College Clubs in Huffington Post
Posted on Huffington Post, July 24, 2013: California, Here We Come: The Future of Middle School Students and the Golden State Quentin Wilson President & CEO, ALL Management Corporation Throughout...
View ArticleCalifornia Moving Away From Washington’s Corporate Education Reform
From Huffington Post… California’s shift to a new weighted student funding model represents just the most recent example of how Democratic state policymakers here are charting a different course in...
View ArticleCalifornia Districts Receive Special Waiver From No Child Left Behind
From District Dossier blog… Eight California districts—including the mammoth Los Angeles Unified—have won a special waiver from the mandates of the No Child Left Behind Act from U.S. Secretary of...
View ArticleReport: Only 33% of California High School Graduates in 2013 Were Ready for...
ACT, Inc. released the 2013 Condition of College and Career Readiness Report, which provides national and state snapshots of college readiness of the graduating seniors of the class of 2013 who took...
View ArticleRecovering from the Recession: Pressures Ease on California’s Largest School...
From EdSource: As the 2013-14 school year gets underway, California’s 30 largest school districts serving some 2 million students are beginning to recover from years of budget cutbacks and a faltering...
View ArticleFinancial Literacy Bill for K-12 Students Signed Into Law
From Assemblymember Roger Hernandez: Financial Literacy Bill for K-12 Students Signed Into Law SACRAMENTO – Today, Assembly Bill 166, authored by Assemblymember Roger Hernández (D-West Covina), was...
View ArticleLooking Beyond Money in Evaluating a College
From College Bound… Last week when President Obama introduced the idea of a college-rating system, his focus was on the economics of higher education. But there is more to measuring the worth of an...
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