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Education

The Disturbing Reason Higher Education Lobbying Groups Are Supporting For-Profit Colleges

Traditional colleges and universities have become unlikely allies of the beleaguered for-profit industry as each group tries to fend off the government’s push for more accountability.

Alec MacGillis

Education

What If Education Reform Got It All Wrong in the First Place?

That’s the conclusion of a growing number of researchers who argue that 30 years of test scores have not measured a decline in public schools, but are rather a metric of the country’s child poverty and the broadening divide of income inequality.

Bill Raden

Education

University Assault Audits Don’t Tell the Full Story

A new study shows that sexual assaults reported under the Clery Act decline after government audits, suggesting drastic underreporting.

Nathan Collins