Dual-credit programs are supposed to put students "on the fast track" to an affordable college degree, but many teens are earning credits...

Oregon won't require students to show mastery of reading, writing or math to collect a high school diploma, reports Sami Edge in The...

Growing up in a two-parent family is an enormous advantage, writes Melissa Kearney in The Two-Parent Privilege. It's the norm for...

Selective colleges should stop expecting top students to take calculus, argues Scott White in Forbes. I was with him that far. My...

"Knowledge is what we think with," writes Greg Ashman, an Australian educator, on Filling the Pail. "Thinking in the absence of knowledge...

"Competency-based education," which assesses students on skills rather than seat time, is finally becoming a reality for vocational...

It's time to bring back bipartisan education reform writes Fordham's Michael Petrilli. He's promoting A Generation at Risk, a "call to...

Sixty percent of former community college students, surveyed 10 years later, said they enrolled primarily for career or personal reasons,...

Americans have soured on the value of a college education, writes Paul Tough in the New York Times Magazine. Ten years ago, 86 percent of...

How do you get a job at Goldman Sachs? In the U.S., it usually takes a degree from an elite college to get in the door. In Britain,...

Gen Z teens are very practical, writes Bruno Manno on The 74. In the recent Question the Quo survey, high school students say they want...

Working for the summer pays off for teenagers from low-income families, concludes a study of Boston's summer job program. Winning the job...

A college diploma doesn't signify academic training or job readiness any more, writes Mitch Daniels, former president of Purdue and...

"Higher education is deeply screwed up," writes William Deresiewicz on Persuasion. The first step to fixing it, he argues, would be to...

The U.S. could close the college readiness gap -- if the college-going rate keeps falling, writes Fordham's Michael Petrilli. Of course,...

Colleges are disabling students, teaching them that they need not show up in class, complete assignments on time or give an oral...

Are you excessively cheerful? Did you turn your frown upside down and now it's stuck that way? David Steiner will remove your...

Obsessing over who gets into elite colleges and universities is an odd preoccupation for progressives, argues Francisco Toro on...

Girls from lower-income families all want to be nurses, the community college dean told me. Few make it. They fail the science and math...

Gen Z college students are clueless about the workforce, according to a survey conducted in March, writes Jaime Dunaway-Seale for Real...