REDONDO BEACH Foundation gets grant to prepare students for college: The Redondo Beach Educational Foundation announced this month that it has received a $300,000 grant – its largest award to date – and will use the money to fund an array of K-12 programs meant to better prepare students for college. Given by Windsong Trust, [...]

Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education this week issued a report that sent a few shock waves through the “college for all” crowd. The report, Pathways to Prosperity, concludes that many students are ill-served by an education system that overemphasizes preparation for pursuing a bachelor’s degree and fails to recognize the need for other options. [...]

Christiana Lenamond, a senior at Portland State University majoring in applied linguistics, displays a Russian class project Monday in which she plays the role of a college recruiter in Russia. The large letters on her poster board say Philological Faculty and the smaller ones read St. Petersburg State University. Lenamond is part of PSU’s Russian [...]

Florida Atlantic University recently was selected by the U.S. Department of Education to receive a $1.6 million grant designed to support second-year college students at-risk of not finishing school. Of the 48 schools awarded this grant nationwide, FAU was the only public school selected in Florida. The money will be given to FAU over a [...]

There’s an interesting article in today’s Columbus Dispatch. Reporter Charlie Boss takes a closer look at the disconnect between grades earned in high school, school ratings and college readiness of some Ohio graduates. Do good grades mean a high-school graduate has mastered the material and is ready for the next level? That’s hard to determine, [...]