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Front Line Instructors
Writing professors find themselves playing a critical and unexpected role in the education of veterans.
Following Student Veterans
Federal agency releases new college comparison site for student veterans and data about where they are enrolled, earning praise from both for-profit colleges and their critics.
Crackdown on Coding Academies
A California agency's threatening letters to a new cadre of technology training providers spotlight anew the tension between protecting consumers and encouraging innovation.
For-Profit Wage Gap
Community college students who transfer to for-profit institutions earn less than do peers who transfer to public or private colleges, study finds.
Further on Gainful Employment
Education Department proposes perhaps its strictest proposed language on the rules so far, a week before negotiators get back to business.
Opinion
Annual Veterans Count, 2013
Wick Sloane's yearly survey of how many former military service members are at the nation's elite private colleges finds, to his dismay, that the situation is actually getting worse.
In the Dark on Data
Adult students aren't using College Scorecard and other consumer websites as they consider college, and they aren't interested in performance metrics like graduation rates and debt levels.
Troubling Stats on Adult Literacy
The United States ranks low in basic proficiency language and numeracy skills in a survey of 24 countries, even though its citizens are comparatively highly educated.