Upward Mobility

Joanne Jacobs

Demand is high for skilled trades classes

Seventy percent of Los Angeles County students said they'd consider taking a skilled trades class, if their high school offered the...

Joanne Jacobs

College or Chipotle? High school graduates need more choices

America invests more than $500 billion of taxpayer money in colleges each year, writes Ryan Craig, in an Education Next forum. That...

Joanne Jacobs

KIPP schools are game changers

KIPP charters are game changers, concludes a new Mathematica study. Compared to similar students who applied to KIPP but lost the...

Joanne Jacobs

Love, marriage, honor roll: Culture closes 'excellence gaps'

Culture explains why Asian-American students do so well in school, writes Helen Raleigh, who's Asian American, in The Federalist. It's...

Joanne Jacobs

Apprenticeship-to-degree model launches debt-free careers

How do you get a job at Goldman Sachs? In the U.S., it usually takes a degree from an elite college to get in the door. In Britain,...

Joanne Jacobs

Talking 'bout 'oracy'

Teaching students to speak well would "break the class ceiling," said Sir Keir Starmer, the British Labour leader and would-be prime...

Joanne Jacobs

Florida Atlantic wins upward mobility tournament

Florida Atlantic University beat Memphis in the closing seconds of the first game of the NCAA tournament, and play Farleigh Dickinson...

Joanne Jacobs

Funding follows students to religious school, if that's parents' choice

Empowered with a $7,000-per-child "backpack of cash," Arizona parents can choose an educational program -- including a religious private...

Joanne Jacobs

'Be all you can be' works for black soldiers

Enlisting in the Army raises earnings for blacks, writes Jeff Murray, citing a new study. Army Service in the All-Volunteer Era by West...