Dual enrollment helps Texas students do well after graduation, but taking college-prep classes has no benefit, says a new study.

Students who receive good grades for mediocre work tend to learn and earn less in the long run.

States are dropping graduation exams to hide the failure to prepare all students for work, job training and college.

Boilermakers, pipe fitters, electricians and plumbers are more likely to be employed than four-year college graduates.

Most law and medical students are female. Men hold the edge in business and engineering.

Worried about AI and college costs, young workers are pursuing jobs in the skilled trades.

Even elite computer science graduates are having trouble competing with AI for jobs.

FAFSA will warn students who apply for aid to attend colleges where graduates earn less than workers with only a high school degree.

Teenagers aren't learning work skills in entry-level jobs. Employers prefer to hire immigrants.

Streamline high school course requirements.

Corporate blather won't restore faith in higher education, argues an English professor whose department may be merged into Human Narratives and Creative Expression.

Relying on AI to do the math for you is "a recipe for idiocracy."

Ford can't find auto mechanics -- for $120,000 a year. Most high school graduates don't know enough math (or read well enough) to succeed in job training.

If "open access" colleges raised standards, would students work harder to qualify?

College enrollment remains strong at high-value colleges, but young people are wary of colleges and degrees that are unlikely to pay off.

Most career credentials offered in high school will not lead to a career, or even an entry-level job, but may provide an easier path to a diploma.

Naive 18-year-olds are choosing college majors without knowing whether they're likely to finish a degree or qualify for a job that will enable them to pay their college loans.

As Americans lose faith in the value of a college education, Silicon Valley is celebrating dropout entrepreneurs.

Humanities would get more respect -- and graduates would earn more -- if professors made classes harder.

Federal Pell grants will find job credentials for low-income Americans, but many job programs have weak results.