Fast Fact: College Access Doesn’t Necessarily Add Up to College Success
College going is up for all groups, but most of the new white college students attend selective colleges while…
Statement From The Education Trust on the Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act
WASHINGTON (July 24, 2013) Todays vote on a student loan interest rate compromise on the floor of the…
Intentionally Successful: Improving Minority Student College Graduation Rates
Employing new data reported to the U.S. Department of Education, The Education Trust finds encouraging news for those concerned…
Intentionally Successful: New Mini-Brief Finds College Efforts to Increase Student Success Work
WASHINGTON (July 17, 2013) Employing new data reported to the U.S. Department of Education by colleges and universities,…
Joint Statement From Six Student, Youth, Consumer, and Education Organizations on Today’s Senate Vote on Student Loan Interest Rates
American Federation of Teachers, The Education Trust, The Institute for College Access and Success, US PIRG, United States Student…
Statement from The Education Trust on Supreme Court’s Fisher v. University of Texas Decision
WASHINGTON (June 24, 2013) The Supreme Courts decision today in Fisher v. University of Texas reaffirmed the bedrock…
Fast Fact: Students can’t afford higher rates.
The high cost of college already shuts out more than 100,000 low-income, college-qualified students. We can't afford to make…
Fast Fact: Attrition v. Admission
At more than 200 higher education institutions nationwide, less than 10 percent of students graduate with a degree or…
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.