The U.S. Department of Education will hire 60 more investigators and increase the number of investigations by 50 percent, partly in response...
Barack Obama campaigned on the promise to eliminate federal programs that don’t work, change programs that don’t quite measure up and consolidate duplicate...
The proposition can seem fair or outrageous: If the federal government, in effect, pays a college to train young people for...
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) awarded two $10 million competitive grants last month to two national youth-serving organizations to support...
Jennifer Supsky was only 16 years old when she moved to Louisville, Ky., to escape the emotional trauma caused by her...
The College Board, which first set the agenda to have 55 percent of America’s with a post-secondary degree by 2025, says the...
The Lumina Foundation for Education, one of the best-known higher-education philanthropies, is shifting its focus from program initiatives to policy development, according...
A Washington-based nonprofit that aims to monitor college costs and expenditures released an online database this week that makes it easy for...
A Washington-based nonprofit that aims to monitor college costs and expenditures released an online database this week that makes it easy for...
In the coming years, low- and moderate-income youth will find it increasingly difficult to afford the cost of a college degree because...
The U.S. Department of Education is proposing new rules to oversee the growing field of for-profit higher education, but it kicked the...
The vast majority of American jobs in the next few years will require some type of post-secondary training or degree, meaning that...
Youth Development Institute (YDI) This report serves as a guide for forming partnerships between community-based organizations and colleges that want to...
In an effort to increase the number of students who complete college, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged up...
Bethesda, Md.—Eighteen-year-old Eduardo Sartor arrived at the office of Collegiate Directions Inc. late last month with his parents, a stack of...
Numerous programs address how to keep at-risk students in high school and ensure that they graduate, but there are far fewer...
This report supports “benchmarking” as a way for community colleges to measure how well they are making sure the students who...
This report examines lessons learned at six community colleges that have adopted the strategy of using “learning communities” – defined as groups...
This report examines lessons learned at six community colleges that have adopted the strategy of using “learning communities” – defined as groups...
Students who pursued bachelor’s degrees from for-profit colleges have the highest student loan debt, according to a new research brief from the...