Education

The institutions make a nice profit whether students graduate or not and whether they start a career or not.

The for-profit college advocacy group Coalition for Educational Success (CES) has now dramatically reduced spending on lobbying.

America's community colleges are in a near-death cycle after decades of budget cuts designed to weaken the public commons.

Battles over school curriculums occasionally make national news, but quickly fade. However, the banning of the Mexican-American studies program in Tucson has assumed much greater significance. The action precipitated …

A strike before November? Teachers say they are ready for it.

New information appears to tie Washington Post-owned Kaplan University to this legislation deregulating for-profit colleges at the same time Kaplan was misleading students about the accreditation status of a …

In the most recent escalation in the battle between a Quebecoise government pushing tuition hikes and striking Canadian students, at least three cities saw mass arrests at demonstrations against …

In Canada's francophone Province of Quu00e9bec, it is students that have mobilized this year to combat growing austerity plans and, in particular, a post-secondary tuition hike of 82 percent …

Exxon-Mobil is airing education-reform television ads. In the one I’ve seen most often, implicit and explicit messages are simple and clear: (a) We live in a dangerous, technologically complex …

Students, parents, teachers, rally against a proposed radical restructuring of the public school system.