USA Today reports that President Barack Obama is proposing providing $900 million to states and local school districts in an effort to address the country’s school dropout epidemic.

According to Obama’s proposed plan, those schools that are struggling will either need to implement some drastic changes or they face being closed down completely. The USA Today [...]

The U.S. Department of Education has named 16 finalists in its “Race to the Top” competition, which will ultimately reward $4.35 billion worth of funding to schools in the form of grants.

According to USA Today, 41 states applied for the grant, but those that were chosen as finalists include:
· Colorado
· Delaware
· District of Columbia
· Florida
· Georgia
· Illinois
· Kentucky
· Louisiana
· Massachusetts
· New York
· North Carolina
· Ohio
· Pennsylvania
· Rhode Island
· South Carolina
· Tennessee
Of [...]

Despite the fact that many community colleges are receiving less funding, which has made it impossible for them to start new construction programs on campus, many are still finding the need to expand. After all, it is no secret that enrollment numbers are going up, which means these schools need to find a place to [...]

USA Today reports that a school board in North Carolina has decided to do away with its policy of assigning students to schools according to their socio-economic backgrounds. Rather, the school district will now focus on forming neighborhood schools instead.

The measure was passed in a 5-to-4 vote as the board resolved to move away from [...]

According to the White House, 1.2 million students drop out of school every year. Furthermore, only about 70% of high school freshmen will go on to graduate. Alarmingly, White House officials also report that just 2,000 high schools are responsible for turning out half of all of these drop outs. As such, the Obama Administration [...]

According to an article in USA Today, the face of high school is changing dramatically when compared to the experience that most of us had. In fact, a growing number of states are allowing high school students to graduate early and a bill designed to make the senior year of high school option even passed [...]

A new national survey gives high school guidance counselors some pretty poor grades, especially when it comes to helping students through the college application and enrollment process.
The national survey, conducted by Public Agenda and funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, gathered information from over 600 participants, ages 22 to 30. The findings are [...]

For many years now, colleges have asked applicants to provide information about race, ethnicity and academic interests on their applications. Although students have the option to supply this information or to leave it blank, schools use this information as part of their outreach program. In other words, they attempt to pair students up with other [...]