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WATCH: Why Employers Can't Find Workers While 75 Million Youth Are Jobless

Posted 12.10.2012 | Home
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Around the world, governments and businesses face a conundrum: high levels of youth unemployment and a shortage of job seekers with critical skills. ...

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Joy Resmovits

Too Cool For School?

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 12.05.2012 | Home
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NEW YORK -- Shawn Brody is a high school dropout -- he just didn't see the point in all that school. Now 24, Brody crashes with his dad in Brooklyn...

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College: Drop Out or Stay In?

Sierra | Posted 12.05.2012 | College
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Sierra

By the time she arrived in Kenya, between her freshman and sophomore years at Princeton, Eden Full had already done the kind of hands-on work that can make a smart, ambitious student wonder whether getting a college degree is all that necessary.

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Anthonia Akitunde

Thinking About Going Back To School? Read This First

HuffingtonPost.com | Anthonia Akitunde | Posted 08.17.2012 | Fifty
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Geraldine Johnson, 64, is unemployed after paying $60,000 for a master's degree. She lives on $1,034 in Social Security and in December will begin paying $400 of that toward her student loans.

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Can a Standardized Test Trump the High School Diploma at Predicting Job Readiness?

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 08.19.2012 | Business
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Youth Radio -- Youth Media International

17 year-old Ana Diaz got her first ever job after taking the WorkKeys Assessment. Photo:Brett Myers/Youth Radio By: Sayre Quevedo According the US ...

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America's Public Schools: Still Unequal And Unjust

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 06.06.2012 | Home
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Marian Wright Edelman

The struggle to make sure a quality education is available to every child -- and not just a privilege for a few -- is the unfinished and critical business before the nation for it will determine America's future place on the global stage in a rapidly changing competitive world.

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Expert Says "College Ready For All" Will Not Solve Dropout Crisis

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 03.21.2012 | Home
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Youth Radio -- Youth Media International

By: Robyn Gee Could being on the high school football team prepare you just as well for the workplace as taking an advanced placement class? By forci...

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Teaching In The Young Lions' Lair

Turnstyle | Posted 01.09.2012 | Home
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Amanda M. Fairbanks

Young Latinos Vital To Reaching National College Degree Attainment Goals

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda M. Fairbanks | Posted 10.16.2011 | Latino Voices
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Daniel Perez narrowly avoided the fate of navigating his young life armed with only a high school diploma. His family had emigrated from Mexico whe...

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Grandpa And Grandson Prove It's Never Too Late To Earn GED

WCF Courier | Andrew Wind | Posted 08.02.2011 | Home
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WATERLOO -- Bob Speed is finally getting his GED, more than 50 years after dropping out of high school. The 70-year-old Dunkerton man will be joined ...

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Lessons on a Balanced College Life Learned by a Dropout

Sam Raushenbush | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
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Sam Raushenbush

I now find myself in a position that many Americans find themselves in today, working a low-paying job, trying to pay all the bills.

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Droppin' Out: The Real American Crisis

Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Casey Gane-McCalla

For too many years Americans have fought against things: communism, drugs, poverty. Isn't it time to fight for something?

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