Non-degree ‘badges’ are booming. Are they really useful?
While there has generally been consensus about what a college degree represents, there’s confusion over how to define many of these new credentials and judge their usefulness for employers and job seekers.
Some colleges are totally unaffordable, and this tool proves it
After years of escalating costs and stagnant earnings, new data show that some colleges have finally grown conclusively, decisively and categorically unaffordable for many Americans.
Billions in Pell Grants go to students who aren’t graduating, new data shows
Taxpayers have spent more than $325 billion in the last decade on Pell Grants meant to help low-income students graduate, but only half of Pell recipients at four-year universities and colleges graduated within six years, new data show. It’s the…
Why these veterans regret their for-profit college degrees — and debt
A new documentary illuminates how veterans have been particularly vulnerable to abuses by the for-profit college industry.
The push is coming from policymakers and consumers who want to know the return on their investments in college.
What are the unintended consequences of colleges cutting corners to produce more graduates more quickly?…
“They realize this may be their one shot, and they’ve worked too hard and come too far to give up.”…
Between 2000 and 2015, the college-going rate among Hispanic high school graduates more than doubled, to 3 million. But the proportion of Hispanics earning degrees still lags behind the proportion of whites.
Here’s what parents go through when trying to enroll a child in high-quality, affordable preschool.
