Americans understand that a postsecondary education is the key to finding a better job and building a better life. This lesson hit home during the recent recession, when four out…
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Given that the value of college is frequently challenged on multiple fronts these days, interest in how the public regards higher education runs pretty high among its champions. The latest…
A majority of U.S. adults, 61%, believe education beyond high school is available to anyone in America who needs it — down from 67% who felt this way in 2013….
In a recent (April 4, 2015) opinion essay in the New York Times, “The Real Reason College Costs So Much,” Paul Campos, a law professor, argues that the high cost…
As high school seniors weigh their college offers this month, there is more evidence that investing in higher education is worth it: College-educated workers in America now make 80 percent…
Last Monday – April 6, 2015–Starbucks announced updates to their College Achievement Plan (CAP), which provides tuition reimbursement to employees admitted to Arizona State University’s online degree program. For employees…
A push to improve student success by providing access to high-quality online, blended, and competency-based education (CBE) led to establishment of the National Research Center for Distance Education and Technological…
The report aims to debunk four “myths” about tuition increases, and at the top is “Faculty are to blame for rising tuition.” To counter this, the report compares the five-year…
Although more students are earning college degrees, there is still a nationwide achievement gap that leaves the United States’ workforce demands unmet, a Thursday report by the Lumina Foundation found….
For almost a decade, the National Assessment Governing Board, which oversees the National Assessment of Educational Progress, studied whether and how NAEP could “plausibly estimate” the percentage of U.S. students…
