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The Boulder Valley School District plan includes expanding career and technical education at secondary schools, creating pathways starting in elementary school with career exploration and more industry certification options.

Yale Law School will begin covering full tuition for its lowest-income students next fall, to make obtaining a law degree more affordable.

Colorado State Universitys online learning division, CSU Global, has introduced a structure to woo hesitant returning students who dont want the hassle of designated term or semester start dates or having to submit transcripts before theyre accepted.

It didn’t take long for universities to figure out that a federal loan system imposes little or no pricing discipline on them — and to shape their graduate programs accordingly.

AP Photo/Mark Lennihan Carve out some time this weekend for this WSJ piece, one of the best hate-reads I’ve had in ages. It’s long but I promise that it’s worth it. How often do you a read a major investigative piece in which literally every person mentioned in it sucks? The Journal pulls back the curtain on a preposterous higher-education scam run by corrupt elite universities like Columbia at the expense of imbeciles who can’t manage a budget and lavishly enabled by the federal govern...

Mario Tama/Getty Images Graduates of top-tier masters programs are increasingly unable to make enough in their early careers to put a dent in their insurmountable student loans, a Wall Street Journal analysis reveals, thanks in part to a federal Grad Plus loan program with "no fixed limit on how much grad students can borrow." Grad Plus, which students might use to cover the cost of tuition, fees, and living expenses — is the fastest-growing federal student loan program, reports the Journa...

How moderates’ fear of the Congressional Budget Office screws students and shrinks ambitious policy, all to protect the fabled “taxpayer”

Silly me! Here I thought the main reason for funneling so much money into higher education via what has become lax student loan screening was patronage. Academics and administrators have a strong tendency to vote Democratic. So a debt-fueled expansion of colleges and universities could only help Team Dem. But in finance, bad accounting regularly drives bad outcomes and that looks to the far more immediate cause for the expansion in student loans, and the resulting escalation in higher education...