Category: VOA Education Report

More than half of young black men in the United States do not finish high school. Many grow up without fathers and in neighborhoods with gangs, drugs and violence. Sixty percent of those who drop out of school have spent time in jail by the age of thirty-five.Joe Marshall co-founded the Omega Boys Club in …

The word “cabaret” brings to mind images of singers in nightclubs, or maybe Liza Minnelli performing years ago in the movie “Cabaret.”What the word does not bring to mind is college dormitories, dining halls and early morning classes. But for the past eight summers, hopeful singers have come to the International Cabaret Conference at Yale …

President Obama signed legislation in August to provide twenty-six billion dollars to the states for education and healthcare. The measure includes ten billion dollars for education and sixteen billion for Medicaid, the joint state-federal government medical program for the poor. The legislation will help one hundred sixty thousand teachers and one hundred fifty thousand police …

Zaytuna College is a new four-year college in Berkeley, California. Zaytuna is seeking to become the first accredited Muslim college in the United States. The name comes from the Arabic word for olives.The process of full accreditation could take several years. That will make it easier for students to get financial aid, and to have …

President Obama wants the United States to have the world’s highest rate of college graduates. But his administration also wants stronger rules for colleges that operate for profit. Career colleges receive billions of dollars from taxpayers through student loans. The Education Department says some of that goes to waste and leaves students in debt for …