It designs legislation aimed at staying out of the headlines and minimizing backlash.

Eighteen years ago, Cate O’Malley was a helpless infant, left at a Chinese orphanage in a metal bucket, with her future, even her life, hanging in the balance.

The market for master’s degrees behaves in strange and erratic ways, new data reveals.

The private school in Louisiana, once celebrated for helping underprivileged and minority students attend elite colleges, is now under federal investigation over its college applications.

Congress should tie student loans to the ratio of administrators to full-time academic faculty.

We are concentrating too much funding on the wrong end of the problem—college. The answer is to improve the product coming out of the K-12 education system that is failing our poorest and most vulnerable citizens.

Diagnosed with a deadly genetic disease as a child, Megan Crowley wanted to do more than just survive it. She wanted to live a full life.

It is an effort to be comprehensive, the magazine says.

Blacksburg, Va., is bracing for an influx of freshmen.

Kamryn and Kaycee Hailey are seniors at West Charlotte High School, and now they’re heading to rival colleges with over $1 million in scholarships earned between them — and they’re twins.

UNC Charlotte has decided not to use the Kennedy building room where the shooting occurred last month. This decision was announced on the one-month anniversary of the incident, which killed two students.

In the U.S., a college degree has usually meant financial security. But increased competition and overwhelming student debt are making that outcome less of a given.

Jiayang Fan writes about the College Board’s new adversity index, which gives context to standardized-test scores with socioeconomic data, and the challenges of meritocratic college admissions.

A large project sought to determine if information and reminders could change the college-going patterns of high-ability, low-income students. The patterns didn't change.

New data from Education Department puts spotlight on high borrowing for some graduate programs. But experts are skeptical more information on students alone will move the needle on enrollment decisions.

The university had ended the application option because it was more commonly used by wealthier, more advantaged students.