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.

How many times have you heard Barack Obama talk about "investing" in education? Quite a few, if you've been listening to the president at all.In fact Americans have been investing more and more in education over the years, led by presidents Democratic and Republican. But it's become glaringly...

Recent economic research suggests that colleges siphon off a significant portion of federal education aid rather than lowering costs to students

This event will address the problems and improvements needed for student loans, beginning with a keynote presentation by former secretary of education Bill Bennett.

What lessons on student loans can be learned from the searing national misadventure with mortgages?

For-profit colleges aren't the first, or even the biggest, education lobbyists. They simply learned from the best: America's beloved public and nonprofit universities.

The number of schools ranked highly in guides such as Barron's Profiles of American Colleges is increasing, without any evidence that these schools' instructional quality is also increasing. Applicants and their families should be wary of letting these rankings serve as the main criteria in their college decisions.

College costs are climbing, and reformers from left and right are seeking cost-cutting ideas. Here's one: Turn the maligned for-profit school system into the IBM for education.