The man responsible for admitting students to Cambridge has claimed allowing poorer students with lower grades into the university would be a "cruel experiment" with the potential to…
There's a direct relationship between how much money the Golden State spends on prisons and how much it spends on higher education, according to a report put out…
When addressing the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan appealed to the crowd not in his official capacity, but "as a parent…
A group of business and political leaders discussing America's jobs crisis agreed on Wednesday that while Washington might be paralyzed until after the November elections, solutions can start…
In my 11 years with the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), I've learned that fighting censorship on our nation's college campuses isn't just about filing First…
The federal Pell Grant program was designed to help college students coming from low-income families afford the high cost of going to college without getting buried in debt,…
Judging how smart a person is can be a very subjective matter. Does their IQ score make them the smartest? Or is it more about accomplishments? The debate…
HuffPost Live's Alicia Menendez sets the stage to a great conversation by framing the issue of Latino educational achievement in its proper context: this is an American issue,…
Two University of Colorado professors, one from Boulder and one from Denver, have put together an Electoral College forecast model to predict who will win the 2012 presidential…
With another presidential election looming, a politically-active student body is an important thing to look for in a prospective college, the Huffington Post reports.