College and career readiness
Colorado dual and concurrent enrollment has grown. But a new national policy group says Colorado and other states can improve student outcomes.
A new paper traces how family income, test scores, and educational spending rise together — leaving the least advantaged students in the least-resourced colleges.
Studies tracking nearly identical students on opposite sides of admissions cutoffs find sizable economic gains, even among those without top grades or test scores.
The policy chips away at a 1982 Supreme Court decision guaranteeing a free K-12 education for immigrant students.
Hopeworks Newark trains young adults to work with AI, including mock interviews with digital assistants.
Last year in Pennsylvania, there were nearly 150 pre-apprenticeship programs with around 3,200 active participants, according to state data. That’s three times the number of participants compared with two years prior.
Politicians and educators are encouraging students to consider routes outside four-year college. A Chalkbeat analysis finds well-paying options exist, but they are not available at scale.
Students need career guidance before college, according to a new FutureEd report calling for schools to offer stronger career navigation.
CareerWise Colorado has employed far fewer students in youth apprenticeships than leaders once envisioned. The program’s challenges offer valuable lessons as bipartisan enthusiasm for on-the-job-training grows nationwide.
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators has asked Education Secretary Linda McMahon to rescind a grant application they say could dramatically shift the mission of TRIO’s Talent Search program.
A South Bronx middle school is starting career education earlier, giving tweens the opportunity to explore career options through local partnerships.
Now the state will await approval from the federal government. Some education advocacy groups continued to oppose some elements of the overhaul.
The growth in dual credit participation has won praise for sending students to college better prepared and helping them avoid debt. But skeptics worry about pressure to enroll less-prepared and younger students, offering them watered-down curriculums and credits that selective colleges might not accept.
Admissions-focused platforms could farm out routine questions and give overworked counselors more time to focus on individual students.
CUNY is renewing efforts across its 26 campuses to train the next generation of early childhood educators as New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani seeks to expand free child care.
The Citywide Council on High Schools wants NYC to mandate career aptitude assessments for all ninth and 11th graders. But researchers say adults are still needed to interpret results.
An exchange between two education writers on the value of admitting students who need remedial support to selective universities like UCSD.
Not many more, according to a careful parsing of recent data.
The 2025 dropout rate of 1.6% is the lowest in state history.
The report’s authors found alternative pathways in five industries — construction, agriculture, engineering, mechanics, and health care — led to good jobs too, but mostly for white and Latino men.