Cognitive ability no longer is linked strongly to years of education, concludes a Norwegian study published in published in Scientific...

More than 22 million former college students were supposed start repaying their loans on Oct. 1 when the three-year-long pandemic pause...

Math achievement is very low for black students. Can "culturally relevant" math problems -- such as analyzing a hip-hop star's purse...

Should I borrow to pay tuition at a private college? How much will that car loan really cost? How do I write a budget? Wisconsin will...

I'm in Austin for my granddaughter's first Christmas. I'll post a photo later today. Here's Caroline's first Hanukkah. As you can see,...

Smart phones are making students less smart, writes Derek Thompson in The Atlantic. Student achievement has been falling around the world...

Humanities professors, under heavy pressure to prove their discipline is "useful," have gone political, writes Tyler Austin Harper in The...

The higher ed gender gap is widening, reports Richard Fry for the Pew Research Center. Fewer young men are pursuing degrees, especially...

The crisis for new college graduates is a media perennial, writes Kevin Carey in The Atlantic. "Find some recent grads working humble...

California's public schools have "lost" 87,000 students, according to an analysis by Thomas Dee, a Stanford professor, and AP. An...

As district-run public schools lose enrollment -- 1.5 million students since 2019 -- charter schools are adding students, according to a...

Grades are up and tests are out. "More states could abandon high school exit exams as a graduation requirement, writes Libby Stanford in...

"Equality in misery" is the new plan for Chicago Public Schools, writes Paul Vallas, who lost the race for mayor to Brandon Johnson, a...

"White people are oppressors," say 79 percent of young Americans 18 to 24 years old in a recent Harvard CAPS-Harris poll. "Nonwhite...

The world is a dangerous place, teenagers and young adults believe. Members of Gen Z -- those born from the late 1990s to the early 2010s...

More than 90 percent of parents think their child's elementary school and teacher are doing a "good" or "excellent" job of teaching...

It doesn't matter what kids read as long as they're reading, people often say. Maybe so. But for "developing readers," leisure reading...

"(Are you ready?) Yes, I'm ready . . . I don't even know how to hold your hand Just to make you understand But I'm ready (ready) to learn...

Free money! Grandpa Joe Biden knows you'd rather not repay your federal student loans, so he's doing his best to wipe out your debt,...