Congress is understandably concerned about the return on federal investment in higher education and the $1.6 trillion in federal student loan debt. But in its rush to fix a system that too often fails ...

Low-income college students, whose proportion of enrollment is already dropping, could soon face new obstacles to going to and graduating from college. Credit: Ted Shaffrey/AP Photo The Hechinger ...

The high cost associated with college is one of the greatest deterrents for students interested in higher education. A 2024 survey by Inside Higher Ed and Generation Lab found that 68 percent of ...

President Trump’s efforts to shutter the U.S. Department of Education are in full swing. On Thursday, he signed an executive action instructing U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to “take all ...

At the Red Hawk Day fair to generate student involvement, Jayla Friedman and Nicole Atauchi talk about the Theta Kappa Chi sorority. They have been friends since high school and say that they’re eager ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The U.S. Department of Education let go of about 1,300 employees, which is nearly half of its workforce. Besides college loans, the department distributes funding for low income and ...

The Illinois State Board of Education is asking lawmakers this year for $200,000 to develop a new way of counting low-income ...

Students who are Black, Hispanic, female, from low-income families or multilingual learners are less likely to be identified ...

With cuts to nearly all the staff at the Department of Education's primary data agency, low-income and rural schools may not get the federal funds... How the Education Department cuts could hurt ...