“Higher education is a racket that sells you a very expensive ticket to the upper middle class,” said Bill Mahr. The comedian put a fine point on America’s growing frustration with steady price ...

Mike: I think that we need to talk about what we mean when we discuss “education.” We began this blog by making the distinction between the institutional setting of education and educational values ...

Most Americans agree: there is increasingly limited value to higher education. Over the last decade, the American public has increasingly lost confidence in the economic benefits of a college degree.

Growing public skepticism in higher education has fueled a number of polls and surveys aimed at understanding how families, students and taxpayers perceive the value of a college degree. For instance, ...

According to recent data from the National Student Clearinghouse, more than one million fewer American students are enrolled in higher education today than in 2019—the largest two-year decrease the ...

Dr. Martha Bireda shares that, contrary to white perceptions, education was key for students... Dr. Martha Bireda shares that, contrary to white perceptions, education was key for students and parents ...

The share of Americans who believe colleges and universities have a positive impact on the country has dropped by 14 percentage points since 2020. That's according to the latest results of an annual ...

If job preparation were the only purpose of education, Randall Collins’s “The Dirty Little Secret of Credential Inflation” (The Review, September 27) would indeed paint a dire picture. It is tightly ...

Thirty-five incoming first-year students in SUNY Cortland’s Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) recently completed a Summer Institute that considered the implications of a weighty philosophical ...

Many Americans say college might not be worth the cost because the economy is rigged in favor of the rich and influential, according to a new poll from USA TODAY and Public Agenda. Younger people, who ...

Over the past few years, whenever someone outside the Tufts bubble asks me what I am majoring in, I usually glibly respond “economics.” This is only a half, or maybe a quarter, of the truth. I am not ...