Elite universities help well-off students do well, writes Derek Thompson in The Atlantic. They do little for upward mobility because they...

Our competitors do a better job of enabling students to gain more education than their parents, she writes. Once, public education was...

While U.S. students are told that a four-year college degree is the only route to success, employers are paying top dollar for those...

uses job-market data to help students plan their futures, reports Catherine Gewertz in Education Week. Students at iLEAD Academy...

“Students who take a lot of career-and-technical-education classes in high school are hard workers who are less likely than their peers...

The primary purpose of education isn’t preparation for college, writes Ray Domanico, director of education policy at the Manhattan...

More first-generation, low-income students are going to college — but not completing a degree, writes David Leonhardt in the New York...

Udacity has ended its get-a-job-or-your-money-back guarantee for its Nanodegree Plus program, reports Lindsay McKenzie at Inside Higher...

The only way to award honest high school diplomas is to give students a choice of meeting basic, career-ready or university-ready...

In gender-equal Norway and Finland, 20 percent of college graduates in science, engineering and math are women, compared to 41 percent in...

Now that unemployment is down, employers may think twice about degree inflation, writes Preston Cooper in Forbes. They can’t afford to be...

The cheapest route to a bachelor’s degree — in theory — is to live at home, go to a low-cost community college, earn an associate of arts...

States vow to graduate students who are college- and career-ready but have no idea if they’re succeeding, writes Checker Finn. The...

Ohio students will be able to take advanced computer science instead of Algebra II under a new law, reports Leo Versel in Education Week....

New Mexico will make applying to college a high school graduation requirement, under a bill moving through the Legislature. “Exceptions...

sheepskin effect” requires a master’s degree. “If trends continue, by 2025 we will be offering master’s degrees in janitorial science.”...

Retraining usually doesn’t work, writes Jeffrey Selingo is part of the Lumina-funded series, What makes a worker?, in The Atlantic....

Pushed to offer more college-prep classes, California high schools have cut auto shop and other vocational classes, reports Carolyn Jones...

In the 21st century, the “career-ready” 18-year-old high school graduate is a myth, write Anthony P. Carnevale, who...

Ohio will put a career readiness seal on the diplomas of graduates who’ve mastered skills such as teamwork and creativity,...