Today’s Senate hearing about for-profit colleges provides something to think about for anyone who feels privatization is the Great Solution to what ails the U.S. education system. We’ve already heard ...

Anti-market advocates have proved themselves allergic to “profit,” especially when it comes to education. They have harmed millions of students by forcing successful colleges to close. They have also ...

For-profit colleges are businesses that aim to generate profit for their owners and investors. These colleges offer career training and degrees, but they've been subject to criticism and, in some ...

Amid his ongoing assault on elite “woke” colleges, President Donald Trump mused Monday that he might redirect some of Harvard University’s now suspended federal funding to trade schools—institutions ...

*Higher education is supposed to be about opening doors to a promising future. Fortified by training, skills and credentials, a personal pathway to the middle class is the presumed goal. But in recent ...

The education policy portion of Republicans' "big, beautiful" Trump administration agenda bill could incentivize for-profit colleges to take advantage of veterans again years after a loophole used by ...

The University of Illinois Chicago and the University of Illinois Springfield are paying a for-profit company for each student it recruits to online programs — a practice that would be illegal if done ...

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 ...

Today in academia: for-profits get a lot of federal cash, an unfunny stunt after being fired, a steep application fee with a lot of loopholes and a roller-coaster ride for an endowment.

Madison Marino Doan is a senior research associate in the Center for Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation. This week, the Department of Education published a long-overdue correction in the ...