Fast Fact: For-Profit Colleges Need High Standards
Taxpayers fund 86% of revenue for the 15 big, publicly traded for-profit colleges. Gainful employment regulations are meant to…
Fast Fact: Parents Just Say No to Expensive Colleges
Students aren’t the only ones concerned with high college costs. More than two-thirds of parents say they are likely…
Fast Fact: Pell Under Attack… Again
Rep. Paul Ryan wants to freeze Pell Grant funding for 10 years. That would shrink its purchasing power to…
Fast Fact: Sequester could impact college students
Sequestration could shut 33,000 college students out of federal work-study programs.
Fast Fact: Doing Away With Debt
More than 100,000 academically qualified, low-income high school grads don't go to college each year, with cost as a…
Fast Fact: Unsustainable student debt
"Today, skyrocketing costs price too many young people out of a higher education, or saddle them with unsustainable debt."…
Doing Away With Debt: Using Existing Resources to Ensure College Affordability for Low and Middle-Income Families
America has some of the finest colleges in the world, but the promise of higher education is realized by…
New proposal for redesigning financial aid outlines path to a debt-free college guarantee
WASHINGTON (February 14, 2013) College tuition is skyrocketing, forcing far too many students to take on frightening debt…
Fast Fact: Dream Act puts higher ed within reach
65,000: The annual number of undocumented high school grads who've lived in the U.S. for five or more years.…
Fast Fact: The path to success
Parents of color know their children's path to success runs through college. More than 9 in 10 say completing…
Fast Fact: Senators demand student protections
Ed Trust thanks the eight senators who recently asked Education Sec. Arne Duncan to investigate data manipulation tricks for-profit…