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Duncan Apologizes on PLUS Loans
Education secretary tells black college leaders he's sorry for how his agency tightened underwriting standards for federal parent loans, which resulted in wave of loan denials.
Advocate for Black Colleges
White House office gets as its new leader the former president of South Carolina State.
Flipping Med Ed
Stanford University and the Khan Academy present a road map to change medical education -- and to bring students back to lecture halls.
2 Years for Law School?
President Obama endorses idea that legal education is too expensive and too long.
O.K., Glass, Teach
After a summer's worth of experimentation, educators are ready to bring Google Glass into the classroom -- but medical professors have already beat them to the punch.
No Job, No Refund
A federal appeals court upholds dismissal of lawsuit by former students who said Thomas M. Cooley Law attracted them with misleading employment statistics.
Who Will Teach Nursing?
With retirements looming, vacancies unfilled and accreditors cracking down, many colleges search for strategies to hire professors in fast-growing field.
Not Business as Usual
UCLA wins approval to make M.B.A. program self-sufficient, which the school sees as key to long-term success. The UCLA plan remains controversial, but Berkeley’s Haas School has changed its business model with much less resistance.