“In the end it doesn’t feel like [the money] is really being allocated in ways that are benefiting states and districts,” says Jennifer Cohen, a policy analyst with the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan, nonprofit public policy think tank. Original article
Even if the stimulus includes $150-billion dollars for education, Jennifer Cohen comments on how the schools and states in the most need may not receive a share of these necessary funds. Link to audio.
That could mean more than $9 million for New Hanover County schools over the next two years, according to the New America Foundation, which analyzed data ...
28, according to an analysis conducted by New America Foundation, a nonpartisan research group. Georgia has about 1.6 million public schools students. ...
Washington DC -- Today the New America Foundation's
Federal Education Budget Project released a report on America's college
readiness and remediation crisis. The paper, "Bridging the Gap: How to Strengthen the Pk-16 Pipeline to Improve College Readiness,"
by Ulrich Boser and program fellow Stephen Burd, details the failings
Far too many students leave high school unprepared for the rigors of college and the workplace. Nearly a third of all incoming freshmen- 42 percent of first-year students at public two-year colleges-require remediation. At some postsecondary institutions, more than 90 percent of first-time freshmen need to take remedial classes before enrolling in courses that count toward their degrees. Remedial courses are offered at 99 percent of public two-year colleges and more than 75 percent of public four-year institutions.
An updated version of this paper can be found here.
In May of 2008, Congress passed the Ensuring Continued Access to Student Loans Act (ECASLA) in response to concern that credit market conditions could disrupt federal student loan availability. The law gives the U.S. Department of Education temporary authority to purchase federally backed student loans made by private lenders, effectively providing a secondary market for the loans. Congress opted to leave the new purchase authority largely undefined in statute, giving… more
Data show that children who are born in poverty to young,
poorly educated parents have much lower chances of succeeding in school,
college, and the workforce than their less-disadvantaged peers. They are also
at greater risk for a host of negative outcomes, including poor academic
performance, being held back a grade, dropping out of high school, being
unemployed, and participating in criminal activity.
