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Cover StoryThe great college aid game: Landing a full ride after a year of suspenseCollege costs were make or break for New Rochelle High School senior Matisse Clayton: With a lot of help from Mom and her color-coded files, she applied to 18 colleges, was accepted at four, and won a full ride at one.
The great college aid game: How five high school seniors won scholarshipsFew students pay the full sticker price for college. Here's how five New Rochelle High School seniors found ways to start college in the fall without bankrupting their parents.
Mark Zuckerberg, wife give $120 million to Bay Area schools. To what end?Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, will give $120 million to public schools in the San Francisco Bay Area. In Newark, N.J., a similar gift drew grass-roots resistance.
Workforce of the future? Bipartisan bill would overhaul job training.The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, the result of months of negotiations, addresses everything from adult literacy and job training to preparing youths with disabilities for employment.
Ohio school lockdown puts officials at nexus of violence and race: Lessons?Authorities have locked down a Cincinnati-area elementary school to protect students from frequent gunfire. Some parents see it as a racist move to eventually close the school.
US schools largely re-segregated 60 years after Brown v. Board of EducationMany black and Latino students are still concentrated in racially isolated schools with high concentrations of low-income students, limiting their opportunities and achievement, a new report says.
Less than 40 percent of 12th-graders ready for college, analysis findsResults from NAEP, also known as the 'nation's report card,' have now been linked with academic preparedness for college. Currently, at least a quarter of college students need to take remedial-level courses.
Christine Lagarde won't be commencement speaker: What happened to free speech on campus?Christine Lagarde joins several high-profile commencement speakers who have withdrawn or been 'disinvited' because of protests. Free-speech advocates worry that today's students only want speech they like.
Illegal immigration: Feds tell schools what they can and can't doThe update is necessary, civil rights groups say, because the initial guidance hasn’t prevented some schools from discouraging students whose families lack legal status. Groups concerned about illegal immigration see it differently.
What are kids reading? Books like 'Hunger Games,' but classics, too.The reading habits of 9.8 million students in Grades 1 to 12 are detailed in the ‘What Kids Are Reading’ report by Renaissance Learning. The annual report tries to identify enjoyable books and encourage more reading.- US 'report card': stagnation in 12th-grade math, reading scoresCommenting on the 2013 NAEP 'report card' for US 12th-graders, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said, 'achievement gaps among ethnic groups have not narrowed.'
Aiming for a Top 100 college? It's not at all necessary to thrive, poll finds.Furthering the debate over the state of US higher education, a Gallup survey of college graduates found that it's what you do at school, not where you go, that matters for your future well-being.
'ObamaCore'? Common Core ed reforms don't scare GOP voters, poll finds.Common Core standards have been derided as a federal takeover of state education by some conservative critics. But a poll shows support for the reforms, even among GOP primary voters.
FocusThe 'transfer' deficit: Push is on to propel students past community collegeEighty percent of community college students say they want to go on to four-year schools. But only 15 percent earn bachelor's degrees within six years. Model programs are tackling this transfer gap.
Minnesota school massacre averted: template for community vigilance?How police caught John LaDue, who allegedly planned to kill his family and bomb his school, offers a lesson in communal vigilance: how one watchful person had the power to stop a tragedy.
55 colleges with Title IX sexual violence cases pending: Is yours listed?In a bid to increase awareness, the US Department of Education, for the first time, released the list of schools under investigation for how they dealt with reports of sexual violence on campus.
The great college aid game: College choice deadline dramatizes family riskCollege aid was the deciding factor for five New Rochelle High School seniors who had to pick a college by the May 1 deadline. Interpreting the financial aid packages was a difficult – even financially risky – drama, as some hesitated until the last minute.
State college tuition skyrocketed during recession, study findsStrapped from the recession, states foisted more of the cost of public college tuition onto students. In 45 states, tuition rose more than 20 percent since 2008. The trend is only now starting to ease.
Sexual assault on campus: 'No more turning a blind eye' to it, Biden saysThe first report from the White House Task Force to Protect Students From Sexual Assault was released Tuesday as the Obama administration increases pressure on colleges to better address the problem.
Progress WatchUS high school graduation rates hit historic highFour-year high school graduation rates hit 80 percent, capping a decade of significant improvement and suggesting that US schools can hit even more ambitious goals by 2020.
