The debt-ceiling deal signed by President Obama last week will cut over $900 billion in federal funding over the next 10 years. Yet even in an extremely budget-conscious atmosphere, members…
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In Maine, Postsecondary Success Starts Before College
NEJHE presents exclusive articles by New England’s governors on higher education in their states … Last spring, 83% of Maine public high school students who began high school four years… Read more »
DC Shuttle: Congress Working to Reauthorize K-12 Law, Reward Early Learning, Protect Internet Privacy
On Wednesday, the House Education and Workforce Committee advanced the first bill (H.R. 1891) in a planned series of education reform legislation. Under the bill, which was approved along party…
Book Review: Harnessing America’s Wasted Talent
Harnessing America’s Wasted Talent: A New Ecology of Learning, Peter Smith, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 2010 In 1970, I was a high school student in a suburban New England town. The… Read more »
Maine Works on its System
Trustees of the University of Maine System got an update this week regarding the financial and programmatic health of the state’s seven university campuses and its online and distance-learning initiative… Read more »
College Labor Shortages in 2018?
The Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce has engaged in a highly publicized campaign claiming that the nation will face a very substantial deficit of college graduates by 2018… Read more »
More than 2 Million Job Vacancies Forecast for NE by 2018 … But Do Our Workers Have What it Takes to Fill Them?
The New England states, like the rest of the nation, are finally starting to show signs of a recovery from the Great Recession of 2008, albeit at different paces. Three… Read more »
College Attainment: Throwing a Complete Game
The U.S. once had the world’s highest percentage of adults with a college degree, but has now dropped to 10th, according to the OECD. In an attempt to reverse this… Read more »
Putting Money Where the Mouth Is
Ways to build momentum for college completion Among policymakers at the federal and state levels, as well as within the philanthropic community, there is an overdue awareness that the U.S…. Read more »
Needs of Asian-American Students Unveiled by National Report
Despite the myth that Asian-American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) students are universally high achieving, large groups of AAPI students have low high school graduation rates and are underrepresented in certain… Read more »