Posted 2024-10-22 05:00:00

Tracking college closures

College enrollment has been declining for more than a decade, and that means that many institutions are struggling to pay their bills. A growing number of them are making the difficult decision ...

Posted 2024-10-21 05:00:00

Posted 2024-10-21 05:00:00

Tribal college campuses are falling apart. The U.S. hasn’t fulfilled its promise to fund the schools.

ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. In the 1970s, Congress committed to funding a ...

Posted 2024-10-21 05:00:00

What one state learned after a decade of free community college

The free community college movement effectively began in 2014 when Republican Gov. Bill Haslam of Tennessee signed the Tennessee Promise Scholarship Act, which offered the state’s high school ...

Posted 2024-10-14 10:00:00

More schools than ever are serving vegan meals in California. Here’s how they did it

This story was produced by Grist and reprinted with permission. Three years ago, Erin Primer had an idea for a new summer program for her school district: She wanted students to learn about where ...

Posted 2024-10-18 05:00:00

Posted 2024-10-17 05:00:00

How four universities graduate their low-income students at much higher rates than average

MONTCLAIR, N.J. — As a high-school senior in New Jersey, Ernesto Reyes Velasco couldn’t envision himself taking the leap to become an independent college student. Neither of his parents, who ...

Posted 2024-10-17 05:00:00

Posted 2024-10-10 05:00:00

​COLUMN: Students want more civics education, but far too few schools teach it

Three weeks before a ferociously contested U.S. election, the views and voices of students should be heard louder than ever – even those of young people who aren’t yet eligible to vote. ...

Posted 2024-10-16 05:00:00