Report on Employment Experience of Teens Shows Disconnects
(Photo: iStock) The Brookings Institute, a public policy think-tank, has released a report titled “Employment and Disconnection Among Teens and Young Adults: the Role of Place, Race, and Education,” which examines the impact the Great Recession had on employment prospects for young people and specifically for individuals between 16 and 24-years-old. The primary activity for […]
Families’ discretionary income reaches £200 a week, according to new report
FAMILIES’ spending power reached a milestone of £200 a week typically in April – the highest level since at least 2008, according to a report. Daily Express :: Finance Feed
Lung disease sufferers not receiving care and attention they deserve, report warns
LUNG disease sufferers are not receiving the care they deserve because of “systemic neglect”, a new report claims. Daily Express :: Health Feed
GAO Report Suggests US Schools Are Resegregating
(Photo: AP, Rudolph Faircloth) Sixty-two years after the Supreme Court ruled that America’s schools must be integrated, schools nationwide show increasing evidence of resegregating along lines of race and income. The Government Accountability Office released a report that showed the number of schools that were segregated along racial and financial lines more than doubled over […]
AIR Report Offers New Model for Calculating College Grad Rates
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) American Institutes for Research, a nonpartisan non-profit that conducts behavioral and social science research, has released a report titled “Toward Improved Measurement of Student Persistence and Completion” which describes how the U.S. Department of Education can more accurately report graduation rates. In 2015, according to the U.S. Department of Education, 70,000 […]
Report Challenges Benefits of Universal Preschool
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) A report published by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank, has detailed the consequences of universal preschool, making the argument that mounting evidence suggests that government-funded preschool fails to fulfill the goals laid out by its proponents. In “Research Review: Universal Preschool May Do More Harm than Good,” Lindsay Burke and […]
BOMBSHELL REPORT: Mass immigration is costing Britain £17BILLION each year
MASS immigration is costing British taxpayers £17billion a year, a bombshell report warned last night. Daily Express :: News Feed
Urban Institute Report Aims to See Why High School Progress Stalls
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) Despite the considerable increase in the academic achievement of elementary and middle school students since the 1990s, efforts to improve the academic quality of schools across the country have tended to leave out high schools. While federal accountability policies require testing to be done in math and reading for students between third […]
Half of Teachers Would Leave For Better Paying Job, Report Says
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) A recently-released study from the Center of Education Policy suggests that K-12 teachers are highly unsatisfied with their chosen profession. Of the 3,328 teachers who sent in responses to the survey of K-12 public school teachers, almost half, 49%, said they would consider leaving their chosen field altogether if it meant […]
Dana White says UFC ‘not for sale’ despite ESPN report (Yahoo Sports)
A report Tuesday said the UFC’s owners are in advanced talks to sell the business and it is expected to be valued between $ 3.5 billion and $ 4 billion. Yahoo Sports – Mixed Martial Arts News