Heightened Cash Monitoring Weaponized: Failing Schools Skirt Scrutiny, Harvard Takes the Blow
The Trump administration’s application of HCM against the Ivy Leauge college is blatant political coercion.
Latest
Big ideas, bold solutions. Explore the latest research, analysis, and policy insights from our experts.
Should Failing Beauty Schools Keep Access to Federal Aid? New Data Suggests No
Federal aid should not flow to schools with abysmal outcomes.
Caltech Settlement Underscores Need for OPM Oversight in Higher Ed
The settlement terms are common-sense restrictions that can be widely applied to OPMs.
The Trump Administration Is Wielding Accreditation as Political Weapon Against Columbia University
The Education Department is trying to coerce the Columbia's accreditor into punishing it.
Trump’s Accreditation Guidance Sidesteps Core Higher Ed Safeguards
The Trump administration’s new policies essentially allow colleges being scrutinized by their accreditor to shop around for a new one.
Grading President Trump’s (Second) First 100 Days
Sweeping cuts to funding and messy deregulation efforts are threatening students and their families.
Meet the Would-Be Accreditors Tied to Predatory For-Profit Colleges
The resurgence of accreditation agencies led by executives of some of America's most infamous for-profit colleges signals trouble ahead.
Students Lose as Trump’s Order Turns Accreditation Into a Political Tool
True accountability requires independent accreditation focused on educational quality and student success, not political loyalty tests.
Trump’s Bureaucratic Purge Renders GOP’s College Foreign Gift Bill Unenforceable
The U.S. Department of Education, whose staff has been cut by about half, would need to enforce the legislation.
How Cosmetology Education Cuts Students’ Dreams Short
Jeremy Bauer-Wolf, in Republic Report, highlights key findings from New America's report on student exploitation in cosmetology schools.
U.S. Colleges Should Not Abandon Their Principles
A political appointee attempting to force what a college can or cannot teach is wrong. And it plainly violates the First Amendment.
Beauty School Finally Drops Out: Why Did It Take a Troubled Paul Mitchell Campus Years to Close?
Only 40 percent of the school's students have salaries higher than a typical high school graduate, according to Education Department data.
Here’s How the Education Department Helps College Students—and What’s at Stake if Trump Guts It
This is the department at its best, not an overinflated bureaucracy the conservatives depict.