Alabama's new "workforce" diploma will prepare graduates for jobs or community college, but not for selective universities.

Even college-focused charter schools are urging students to consider a range of career and post-high school options.

Colleges aren't going to like Trump's higher education agenda , predicts economist Richard K. Vedder. He's the author of the forthcoming...

About half of teenagers say they don't want to go to college right out of high school, according to a new Gallup/Walton survey , reports ...

Requiring day-care workers to earn a college degree would backfire, critics said. It would drive experienced people out of the field,...

America invests more than $500 billion of taxpayer money in colleges each year, writes Ryan Craig, in an Education Next forum. That...

Plumbers are retiring faster than apprentices are joining the trade, reports Salena Zito in the Washington Examiner. Builders report...

Ninety-two percent of Americans like the idea of apprenticeships, according to a recent American Staffing Association survey, and 62...

The average college student has average intelligence, concludes a meta-analysis by Canadian researchers, writes Ross Pomeroy on Big...

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...

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

Universities will have to push failing students above the 50 percent mark or pay hefty fines under legislation proposed by the Australian...

College isn't worth the cost, say 56 percent of of respondents -- 60 percent among 18- to 34-year-olds -- in a a new Wall Street Journal...

Americans have fallen out of love with college degrees, writes Jenny Anderson in Time. In 2019, Americans ranked “preparing for college”...

Teaching "self-sufficiency and competence" should be the goal of high school -- not merely college prep -- writes Selim Tlili, a biology...

Depression and anxiety are the top worries of parents, according to a Pew Research Center survey, report Rachel Minkin and Juliana...

Students' desire to learn is the key to college success, writes Jonathan Malesic, who teaches writing at the University of Texas at...

Fordham's 2022 Wonkathon is looking for ideas on how to reinvent high school: What policy barriers get in the way? If we all agree that...

Forgiving student loans -- if it survives a legal challenge -- is estimated to cost $400 billion to $500 billion or more. That means...