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

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.

This post by Rick Hess is a response to Fawn Johnson's post on the National Journal blog, "Education Experts."

The normal way that free societies encourage "responsible" behavior when it comes to the cost of services is to allow sellers to set a price and buyers to decide whether they're willing to pay it.

The rapid growth in college tuition and fees has outstripped changes in the Consumer Price Index. Who is benefiting from this extraordinary flow of money from students and their families to institutions of higher education?

While most discussion of school choice focuses on charter schooling and school voucher programs, the fastest-growing form of choice in the United States is tuition tax credit programs. Now operating in Arizona, Florida, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Iowa, and Georgia and benefiting about one hundred thousand students, these programs use the...

The time has come to think more creatively about financing college, especially because Congress seems more inclined to pour more money into loans and grants.

What if students could have investors pay their college bills in return for a set percentage of their future income?