For years, policymakers, educators and employers have debated whether career pathways — programs that connect high school students to postsecondary education and careers — actually work. We’ve framed…
Read more OPINION: We need to ask better questions about how and if career pathways are workingHigher education is under siege, with many students and parents balking at high costs. In a series of op-eds, university leaders lay out their efforts to keep college…
Read more OPINION: America’s regional public universities can still be a bargain in a sea of high priced optionsOAKLAND — In 2020, California led the nation in outlawing transcript-withholding, a debt collection practice that sometimes kept low-income college students from getting jobs or advanced degrees. Five…
Read more 5 years after transcript withholding bans began, college students face fewer obstacles but advocates worry about enforcementEven with a conservative think tank’s blueprint detailing how the second Trump administration should reimagine the federal government’s role in education, few might have predicted what actually materialized…
Read more The Trump administration’s biggest impact on education in 2025Ohio resident Megan Cutright lost her hospitality job during the pandemic. At her daughter’s urging, she found her way to Lorain County Community College in Ohio and onto…
Read more OPINION: Workforce Pell can lead to good jobs for students if they get the support needed for long-term success – The Hechinger ReportBy dismantling the Department of Education, the Trump administration claims to be returning control of education to the states. And while states and local school districts are doing…
Read more OPINION: Funding high-quality teacher preparation programs should be the highest priority for policymakersThis story was produced in partnership with Teen Vogue and reprinted with permission. Christopher Cade wants to be president someday. His inspiration largely comes from family members, who…
Read more Trump administration cuts canceled this college student’s career start in politicsAfter decades serving in the Marine Corps and in education, I know firsthand that servant leadership and diplomacy can and should be taught. That’s why I hoped to…
Read more OPINION: A shuttered government was not the lesson I hoped my Texas students would learn on a trip to Washington D.CThis story was produced by the Associated Press and reprinted with permission. WASHINGTON – For a generation of young Americans, choosing where to go to college — or…
Read more As more question the value of a degree, colleges fight to prove their return on investmentFor the first time in more than a decade, confidence in the nation’s colleges and universities is rising. Forty-two percent of Americans now say they have “a great…
Read more OPINION: Higher Education must help shape how students learn, lead and build the skills employers want mostLOS ANGELES — Oscar Mateo dreamed of being an artist, but after he got leukemia when he was 20, his life plans abruptly changed. The compassionate nursing care…
Read more Nurses are in high demand but nursing schools struggle tp provide enough slots to train themRemiah Ward’s shift at the SmartStyle salon inside Walmart was almost over, and she’d barely made $30 in tips from the haircuts she’d done that day. It…
Read more Cosmetology schools and other certificate programs got exemption from rules on graduates’ earning levelsSchools that train hairstylists, dental assistants and health aides will be able to keep getting federal student loan dollars even if the professionals they turn out don’t end…
Read more Explore the earnings for graduates of beauty schools, other certificate programsEvery person deserves a place close to home where they can learn, grow and build a better future. In rural areas, that place is often a community college. …
Read more OPINION: Rural community colleges are uniquely positioned to tackle complex regional challenges and drive community transformation. Here’s how.America’s future is not made in factories or innovation labs — it’s forged in classrooms. We can’t bring good jobs back to U.S. shores if we don’t first…
Read more OPINION: NAEP scores show we need new approaches, more resources and all hands on deck to address underlying education problemsAs a college president, I see the promise of higher education fulfilled every day. Many students at my institution, Whittier College, are the first in their families to…
Read more OPINION: College president fears that federal education cuts will derail the promise of student parents, student military veterans and first-gen studentsELYRIA, Ohio — Nolan Norman had no idea what microelectronic manufacturing entailed when his adviser at Midview High suggested he take the school’s new class on it last…
Read more Colleges struggle to make manufacturing training hot againRead in English. SAN ANTONIO — Ximena tenía un plan. La joven de 18 años de Houston iba a comenzar clases este otoño en la Universidad de Texas…
Read more ¿Qué ha pasado desde que Texas eliminó las matrículas estatales para los estudiantes indocumentados?After a three-year pause prompted by the pandemic, the clock on student loan repayments suddenly started ticking again in September 2023, and forbearance ended last September. For millions…
Read more OPINION: The resumption of student loan payments means students will need new policies — and our helpMOREHEAD, Ky. — The summer after ninth grade, Zoey Griffith found herself in an unfamiliar setting: a dorm on the Morehead State University campus. There, she’d spend the…
Read more TRIO helps low-income students get to and through college. Trump wants to end it
