Students are planning to take on the government in their media today, staging a one-day blitz of tweets, emails and other electronic...
Students attending for-profit colleges are more likely to be poor, poorly prepared for college, most dependent on financial aid, most likely to...
Students attending for-profit colleges are more likely to be poor, poorly prepared for college, most dependent on financial aid, most likely to...
The House Education and the Workforce Committee voted today – strictly along party lines – to allow local school districts to spend...
Officially, the number of children who died of maltreatment in the United States in 2009 was 1,770. That’s the count from the...
A new study that attempted to determine whether additional cash grants to college students who received Pell grants would push more of...
The Obama administration’s attempts to increase the integrity of institutions of higher education – especially among the companies that operate for-profit colleges...
How much does it really cost to attend college? That’s the question most parents want to know when their children are considering...
Roxanne Spillett, whose nearly $1 million salary as head of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America sparked a congressional investigation of...
The House committee that oversees higher education voted today to block two of the Department of Education’s new regulations. The move is...
The recently announced gainful employment rules aren’t the only new projects the U.S. Education Department has in store for for-profit colleges. Education...
The final “gainful employment” rules released today by the U.S. Department of Education rely more on requiring schools and colleges that offer...
Stephanie Jackson says she never thought she would need the disaster portion of her AmeriCorps leadership training. But since a tornado struck...
Robert Velasco II, the chief operating officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service, today was designated the interim chief executive...
The National Center for Education Statistics massive annual report, The Condition of Education, released today focuses on the rise of for-profit postsecondary...
Many school districts don’t have the money for equipment or training to implement the new dietary guidelines for the national school lunch...
The overall federal student loan default rate rose 25 percent in 2009 – from 7.7 percent in 2008 to 9.6 percent –...
Kevin Jennings, currently head of the Education Department’s Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools, has been chosen as the new CEO of...
Attaining President Barack Obama’s goal of having the highest percentage of college graduates in the world by 2020 can only be attained...
A report released by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce at a program on the need for innovation in higher education examines several...