Community colleges are subsidized through direct state and local government appropriations and through student grant programs. Every student who drops out represents an investment loss by the taxpayers in that student's uncompleted education.

An ever-increasing number of individuals are turning to community college for their higher education. Online delivery of classes and competency-based models of higher learning should be employed and innovations from for-profit schools should be borrowed to increase the number of Americans completing their associate’s degrees.

AEI education expert Mark Schneider and Lu Michelle Yin explore the harmful consequences of low community college graduation rates and propose policy solutions in the latest edition of Education Outlook.

Many more factors figure into the cost of a bachelor's degree than just tuition. Taxpayers may contribute a substantial tax subsidy or, in rare cases, receive a moderate net "profit" per bachelor’s degree--fueling an intense discussion about the true costs of higher education and who pays for them.

High school students are taking more courses and more academic ones than ever before—a trend that shows no sign of abating.

Do teacher incentives actually make our schools better? New research on North Carolina schools by Thomas Ahn of the University of Kentucky suggests that the answer is a definitive "yes."