Articles
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Riding Financial Inclusion Disruption: Are Youth Savers the Surfers or the Wave?
Rani DeshpandeThe following article, written by YouthSave's very own Rani Deshpande of Save the Children, originally appeared on the Center for Financal Inclusio... -
Consumer Federation of America releases research brief analyzing OTI data
The Consumer Federation of America (CFA) recently released a research brief authored by long-time consumer advocate Mark Cooper. The paper, titled ... -
Creating Community through Public Computer Centers
This is the second of four blog posts about the Freedom Rings Partnership in Philadelphia and its KEYSPOT program, funded by the federal Broadband ... - article | December 02, 2013 | Postsecondary National Policy Institute
Is College Worth It for Me? How Adult Students without Degrees Think about Going (Back) to School
Public Agenda recently released results from a national survey of adult prospective college students (defined as 18-55 year olds who do not hold an... -
BTOP in Focus: The Philadelphia Freedom Rings Partnership
This is the first in a series of four blog posts about the Freedom Rings Partnership in Philadelphia and its KEYSPOT program, funded by the federal... -
The Price of College
New AmericaA Background Primer No start of an academic year goes by without renewed consternation about the ever-increasing price of a college education. Alth... -
A Column Focused on Sri Lanka: Economic Inclusion of All Segments of Society for Economic Empowerment
Ebere AnosikeThe Daily Financial Times recently published an article entitled, "Economic Inclusion of All Segments of Society for Economic Empowerment." The imp... -
Looking Beyond Headcount: An Interview with Bank of Kathmandu CEO Ajay Shrestha
Rani DeshpandeJust a couple of weeks ago we pulled back the curtains on a young boy’s life, a student in a small classroom at the base of Nepal’s Himalayan Mount... -
El Ahorro es Importante - Saving is Important
Alejandra MontesJust this past May we were very proud to announce that Colombia received the country award for their 2013 Global Money Week activities during the s... - article | November 19, 2013 | Postsecondary National Policy Institute
Degrees of Debt: Student Borrowing and Loan Repayment of Bachelor’s Degree Recipients 1 Year After Graduating: 1994, 2001, and 2009
A recent report from the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics analyzes three cohorts worth of data from the Bacc... -
New America Ed Launches EdCentral
New AmericaNew America education policy analysis and information is now available on a fantastic new platform: www.edcentral.org. Please update your bookmarks... - article | November 12, 2013 | Postsecondary National Policy Institute
A Matter of Degrees: High-Impact Practices for Community College Student Engagement
A new report based on four national surveys from the Center for Community College Student Engagement finds that while community colleges have been ... -
Reply Comments on E-rate Modernization
WC Docket No. 13-184
The New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute and Education Policy Program submitted joint reply comments to the Federal Communications Co... - article | November 07, 2013 | Postsecondary National Policy Institute
Hamilton Project Papers
The Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution has recently released three policy papers focused on improving college outcomes through changes i... -
Youth Savings Uptake: Nature or Nurture?
Katie Stalter Lissa JohnsonThis is the third and final installment of our latest blog series, Understanding YouthSavers, which highlights the findings of CSD's recent report,... -
Success for All with i3 Program
The Success for All program, a school improvement effort funded with federal Investing in Innovation (i3) dollars, seems to be a success. A new eva... -
Building Pop-up Mesh Networks
The Open Technology Institute recently conducted a training on how to build pop-up mesh networks using Commotion. Our goal was to quickly deploy a ... -
If You Build It Who Will Come?
Katie Stalter Lissa JohnsonThis is the second installment of our latest blog series, Understanding YouthSavers, which highlights the findings of CSD's recent report, Savings ... - article | October 29, 2013 | Postsecondary National Policy Institute
Trends in College Pricing 2013 & Trends in Student Aid 2013
The College Board recently released its two annual reports on the price of college and student financial aid.Trends in College Pricing 2013 provide... - article | October 25, 2013 | Postsecondary National Policy Institute
Education Pays 2013: The Benefits of Higher Education for Individuals and Families
A recentreport from The College Board provides analysis on differences in earnings and employment rates of U.S. adults with various levels of educa... -
Taking the Bank to the Youth
Katie Stalter Lissa JohnsonThis is the first installment of our latest blog series, Understanding YouthSavers, which highlights the findings of CSD's recent report, Savings P... -
"Understanding YouthSavers" Blog Series to Launch This Week
Jamie ZimmermanWhen YouthSave first started, one of our key research goals was to find out how low income youth aged 12 to 18 would respond when financial institu...