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Washington makes money available to the states to help young people with disabilities enter the work force. New Jersey has the worst record of helping connect families with such help. [...]

On the first day of seventh grade, Elijah Brown clambered onto a bus. He was part of a desegregation effort that took him from his predominantly Black neighborhood in St. [...]

Under the plan, the universities, which do not pay property taxes, would have to make payments to the City University of New York. State lawmakers will unveil legislation on Tuesday [...]

Under the plan, the universities, which do not pay property taxes, would have to make payments to the City University of New York. State lawmakers will unveil legislation on Tuesday [...]

As Columbia University puts the last touches on its brand-new campus in Harlem, it has reached a milestone: The university is now the largest private landowner in New York City. [...]

As Columbia University puts the last touches on its brand-new campus in Harlem, it has reached a milestone: The university is now the largest private landowner in New York City. [...]

Byline: Meredith Kolodner, The Hechinger Report In the coming weeks, the Supreme Court will rule about whether colleges can consider race in admissions decisions, deciding two cases, Students for Fair [...]

Byline: Meredith Kolodner Last month, when more than 200,000 students who had been victims of misconduct by their colleges began getting the news that their federal student loans were canceled, [...]

Transcript withholding can make it difficult for students to apply for jobs even if they've graduated, since they can't prove to prospective employers that they have a degree. Colleges that [...]

Byline: Sarah Butrymowicz and Meredith Kolodner Wayne Orr didn't yet know that his foot was broken as he made his way back from Texas to his home in South Carolina, [...]

Wayne Orr didn't yet know that his foot was broken as he made his way back from Texas to his home in South Carolina, but he did know that he [...]

Byline: MEREDITH KOLODNER and ANNIE MA Lisa Manwell works on school work with her son John Jinks, 12, at their home in Canton, Mich., Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. Manwell says [...]

Those with unpaid tuition bills at the State University of New York could see their burdens ease in the coming months. After years of inflexible debt-collection practices that have burdened [...]

Amanda Belony was rushing to work when she saw a fat yellow envelope left for her on her mother's kitchen table. She opened it and immediately noticed the New York [...]

Byline: Lauren Lumpkin, Meredith Kolodner and Nick Anderson Alarms sounded at the University of Maryland when the Class of 2022 arrived at College Park. Seven percent of freshmen in fall [...]

The loans have ensnared hundreds of thousands of students, who aren't protected by the same government safeguards carried by federal loans. Kashia Campbell earned top grades from her patient care [...]

In March, as colleges and universities shuttered campuses under a nationwide lockdown, Strayer University updated its website with a simple message: ''Great things can happen at home.'' Capella University, owned [...]

Dissection day always made Karina Frey queasy. Even though she called herself a ''science and math girl,'' she did not like the idea of cutting into a chemically preserved animal. [...]

Computers, fake frogs, new desks and more: a collection of views and news from our Learning special report. This article is part of our latest Learning special report . We're [...]

John Matthew Diaz was 13 when he left the Philippines to join his mother in New York City, where she worked. Three days later he was sitting at a middle [...]

When she was in cosmetology school, Tracy Lozano had a love-hate relationship with weekday mornings. Those predawn moments were the only time she saw her infant daughter awake, and she [...]

Byline: Meredith Kolodner LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- The single, formerly homeless mothers living in Family Scholar House apartments are used to seeing faces drawn down with pity or judgment when they [...]

The official federal graduation rates for colleges and universities that serve large numbers of black, Latino and Asian students significantly underestimate how many of their students are earning degrees, according [...]

Graduating from a four-year college in four years may sound like a fairly straightforward venture, but only 41 percent of students manage to do it. That matters. The longer it [...]

Byline: Meredith Kolodner LOUISVILLE -- The single, formerly homeless mothers living in Family Scholar House apartments are used to seeing faces drawn down with pity or judgment when they tell [...]

The article discusses the alarming trend of schools sending students, some as young as 5 years old, to the emergency room for psychiatric evaluations through a process involving police intervention, with over 750 instances in the past eight years in Wicomico County, Maryland. Topics include concerns about the misuse of emergency evaluations, disproportionate impact on Black students and those with disabilities, and the lack of resources and trained staff contributing to this troubling practice.

As the Bush administration gets tougher on illegal immigration and increases its spending on enforcement, some of the biggest beneficiaries may be the companies that have been building and running […]

The article discusses the success of a laptop rental program at Grand Rapids Community College in Michigan, which allowed students to check out laptops using their ID cards for free and was highly utilized by students receiving Pell grants.

The article discusses young adults granted the right to stay in the U.S. under DACA (the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals law) and their efforts to attend college; focus is given to how DACA students are not granted federal loans and insights on student Estrella Rivas of New Jersey, who has a 4.2 GPA.

The author talks about a partnership between KVC Health Systems and BridgeValley Community and Technical College designed specifically for former foster care children, the Riverbend Center Supporting Higher Education, which will waive tuition fees for students but require them to work part-time, and provide a developmental program to teach study skills.

The article focuses on college student and change agent Camille Borders from Washington University who with her classmate Jasmine Brown are among 10 African-American Rhodes scholars in 2018 and mentions Borders plans on studying abolitionist movements in the U.S. and Britain while Borders will study the history of medicine at Oxford University.

The author reports some of the biggest beneficiaries of U.S. President George W. Bush's increasingly tough stance on illegal immigration may be the companies that have been building and running private prisons around the country. According to the author, the Bush administration is expecting that as many as 27,500 will be in detention near the border each night by the fall of 2007. The involvement of the Corrections Corporation of America and the Geo Group Inc.