by Maud Blose | Oct 25, 2010 | Education
Get the Flash Player to see this content. With current unemployment hovering just below 10 percent, recent college graduates are worried. Many are now joining organizations like the Peace Corps in hopes that international experience will make them more employable when...
by Maud Blose | Oct 14, 2010 | Education
In celebration of the D.C. Schools Act, Thurgood Marshall Academy and Savoy Elementary School students showcased their gardening and cooking skills. All this to raise awareness of healthier eating at schools.
by J. Okray | Oct 6, 2010 | Education, Politics
WASHINGTON — Adolescent girls are a marginalized untapped market that makes economic sense to educate and empower, according to officials at the World Bank’s Adolescent Girls Initiative meeting. “It costs Kenya $3.2 billion per year,” said Maria Eitel,...
by Julia Edwards | Oct 5, 2010 | Education
WASHINGTON — Philanthropist Melinda Gates announced a $34.8-million award to high-performing community colleges Tuesday at the White House’s first summit on community colleges, an effort by the Obama administration to promote the schools as a path to jobs...
by Julia Edwards | Sep 30, 2010 | Education
WASHINGTON–A Senate committee hearing sent a clear message Thursday: For-profit colleges are gambling with students’ lives and American tax dollars. The hearing was the third in a series to shed light on an industry accused of taking advantage of hopeful...
by Julia Edwards | Sep 29, 2010 | Education
WASHINGTON–Dressed in the hospital scrubs, chef jackets and mechanic suits of their professions, more than 1,000 students and graduates of for-profit colleges gathered on Capitol Hill Wednesday to tell Congress that federal loans put toward their educations are...
