Feb 01 One Man’s Journey From Gang Member to Academia Victor Rios says he has lived two lifetimes. In his first, he was a gang member, juvenile delinquent and high school dropout. Today, he's a sociology professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who studies at-risk youth. Continue reading
Jan 31 Mentoring Focuses on Building Relationships in Addition to Grades EmbedVideo(2574, 482, 304); In Washington, D.C., youth-mentoring organizations convened in the second annual National Mentoring Summit to share best practices on how mentoring a young person can create life-changing results. The goal of many mentoring organizations is… Continue reading
Jan 20 The Education Conversation – South Carolina Edition In this week's Education Conversation, we look at how GOP candidates score on education and why South Carolina's graduation rates are so low. Continue reading
Jan 20 Airman, Actors Seek to Inspire Youth with ‘Red Tails’ "Nothing's difficult. Everything's a challenge. Through adversity to the stars. From the last plane to the last bullet to the last minute to the last man - we fight. WE fight! We FIGHT!" That's the mantra of executive producer George… Continue reading
Jan 06 The Education Conversation We look at what's happening in the world of education as seen on Twitter, video and other digital destinations. [View the story "The Education Conversation" on Storify]… Continue reading
Dec 29 In San Francisco Bay Area, New Ideas on Innovating Out of Dropout Crisis One of the toughest jobs in modern America has got to be running an urban school district. Superintendents of schools in big cities like Washington, D.C, Los Angeles and Oakland, Calif., don't have very good job security because if… Continue reading
Dec 23 The Education Conversation We look at what's happening in the world of education as seen on Twitter, video and other digital destinations. View the story "The Education Conversation" on Storify]… Continue reading
Dec 16 Celebrity Calls Urge Students To Get Up, ‘Get Schooled’ Supermodel Tyra Banks poses with students at Mary McLeod Bethune Middle School in Los Angeles after surprising them with a pep rally as part of the Get Schooled Foundation's attendance challenge. Photo by Brian To/Getty Images. A teenager punches… Continue reading
Dec 16 Behind the Numbers: Why Dropouts Have it Worse Than Ever Before Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images. A new dropout crisis study reveals staggering statistics on economic gaps between those in Chicago and around state of Illinois with and without high school diplomas. Earlier this week, our friends over at… Continue reading
Dec 13 Singer Anthony Hamilton Encourages Teens to Stay in School According to the Children's Defense Fund, more than 400,000 children are registered in the foster care system in the United States, and less than one in four are adopted each year. 26,000 of these young people age out of… Continue reading