An industry with a sketchy track record has ramped up advertising to desperate prospective students.
Education in America
Preserving Civil Discourse on College Campuses
Vassar College President Elizabeth Bradley examines how our vicious political climate has affected freedom of speech on college campuses and beyond.
A Case in the Supreme Court Could Upend Public Education
The justices consider whether barring subsidies to religious schools is a type of illegal discrimination.
Supreme Court Case Could Mandate Funding for Religious Schools
Right-wing legal institutes see an opportunity to undermine public education.
International Students Lead the Resurgence in Graduate Student Unionization
Despite facing higher hurdles than their U.S. counterparts, they’re in the vanguard of campus worker activism.
The Emerging Democratic Support for Teachers Unions
A presidential forum in Pittsburgh last week cemented a unified endorsement of public education—at least in public.
College Athletes Should Be Able to Earn Money From Their Likeness
The NCAA’s feeble attack on a California bill allowing that is full of sound and fury, but little substance.
On Summer Vacation and Hungry
The school lunch program has gone a long way to reduce childhood hunger across the country. What happens during the summer?
Deferred Dreams of Brown and Grutter
Educators Ronald Crutcher and Lorelle Espinosa discuss a landmark report on race and ethnicity in higher education.
DeVos Fails Students, Again.
The higher education system is broken, but instead of fixing it, the Department of Education is intent on breaking it even more. The gainful employment rule was an Obama-era regulation that protected against the predatory loan practices of for-profit colleges by monitoring their students’ ability to earn back their debt after graduation. Last week, the […]

