The Education Department has said that if only 45 percent of your graduates are repaying their loans, that's okay. But what we found out on Friday is that for-profit colleges overall only have a 36 ...

For-profit higher education is a large, complex system of institutions, and its explosive growth over the last decade has made it a prominent force in shaping higher-education policy and practice. How ...

One now-closed Kansas City school isn’t representative of all these institutions, which are a better fit for some young people to learn. Getty Images The last four years of the Biden administration ...

To most Americans, colleges like Grand Canyon University look pretty benign. But not to the Federal Trade Commission. Until recently, the FTC looked at this Phoenix-based institution and many others ...

The Department of Education has proposed new regulations to protect students enrolled in for-profit institutions and certificate programs from being saddled with debt they can’t afford to repay. The ...

States are tapping federal money to fund $1 million Star Academies for public schools. Some schools are underwhelmed by the ...

For-profit education has taken heat lately, and that heat turned up considerably this week with a The New York Times story on Kaplan. The Times' Tamar Lewin documents how the test-prep company has ...

WHY IS “FOR-PROFIT” SUCH A BAD WORD IN EDUCATION? Call me crazy, but I thought making a profit was one of the most important things that a good business needed to do. Just because you run a business ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. One now-closed Kansas City school isn’t representative of all these institutions, which ...