September 18, 2012
Well, we are now into the second week of a unionized teacher strike in the country’s third-largest school district.
: Center for Education and Workforce
September 13, 2012
It’s a question that gets asked with alarming regularity these days, but it’s a somewhat fair question. Is it worth spending significant sums of money and going into debt to go to college?
September 12, 2012
Of the 402,000 students currently enrolled in Chicago Public Schools (CPS), 52,000 of them are in school this week—those attending one of the roughly 100 charter schools in the district.
September 10, 2012
As of 12:00 a.m. this morning, more than 26,000 teachers in Chicago officially went on a union-led strike impacting 400,000 kids in 675 schools.
August 27, 2012
By Tom Donohue
As we gear up for a new school year, it’s worth highlighting a subject as essential to many young Americans’ education and our collective future as reading, writing, and arithmetic—entrepreneurship. Unfortunately, it’s often overlooked.
August 16, 2012
August 8, 2012
The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) put out a statement regarding ICW’s Leaders & Laggards report card on state
August 2, 2012
Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Here’s a slightly altered quote from an Inside Higher Education column:
August 1, 2012
The Institute for a Competitive Workforce (ICW) has been reporting on the skills gap crisis in the country for months. As the education and workforce affiliate of the U.S.