Defaulting on student loans can be a career ender, reports the New York Times. Nineteen states suspend state-issued professional licenses...

America’s history of tracking could doom proposals for youth apprenticeships, writes New America’s Abigail Swisher. Would a robust system...

Donald Trump’s June 2017 executive order calling for the expansion of apprenticeships, is “good PR,” Anthony Carnevale tells The...

“Free college” programs should include tuition-free apprenticeships, writes New America’s Iris Palmer. Arkansas, Kentucky, and Indiana...

Bob Smith is fighting for the right to teach horseshoeing to high school dropouts. Smith and would-be student Esteban Narez are suing the...

Which college should I attend? How much can I safely borrow? Should I take a half-time job or an unpaid internship? Join a fraternity or...

While schools struggle to teach basic 20th-century skills,  21st-century students will need to compete with robots for work in The Age of...

Education is a path to upward mobility, writes Fordham’s Mike Petrilli in response to Rachel Cohen’s Atlantic story, Education Isn’t the...

While some states offer “free college” or “free community college” to build a skilled workforce, Virginia is funding vocational...

Education doesn’t guarantee social mobility, writes Rachel M. Cohen in The Atlantic. “In the 21st century, the best anti-poverty program...

University of California at Irvine tops Educate to Career’s college rankings, which compares how well colleges improve students’ labor...

“Free college” won’t be a political winner for Democrats, writes Edward-Isaac Dovere in Politico. The call for free college tuition...

“All throughout high school, they made it sound like going to college was our only option,” says Derrick Roberson, a 17-year-old high...

Ryan Bouland, who used a Work Ethic scholarship from the Mike Rowe Foundation to fund trade school, works as a welder and takes...

Student internships “saved” a low-performing Chicago school that serves low-income students, writes Hechinger’s Chris Berdik in The...

Instead of paying for college, students can learn now, pay later at San Francisco’s Make School, reports Emily DeRuy in the San Jose...

Enrollments are way down at small, private nonprofit colleges, report’s Hechinger’s Jon Marcus. Even lower-cost public universities are...

The much-admired German apprenticeship system “relies on a very stratified education system along with regulated and heavily unionized...

A two-year degree in nursing or a technical trade can lead quickly to a middle-class wage, reports Forbes in a story on top trade...

In Out of High School, Into Real Life, the New York Times profiles recent graduates who aren’t enrolling in college. Many seem quite...