Learning & Assessment

More students are leaving higher education after their first year, according to new national numbers that are bad news for the college completion push.

States have chaotic lack of consistency in how they track college remediation, according to the Education Commission of the States, which seeks national standards.

Southern accreditor strips its approval from Georgia's Brewton-Parker College, and places four others -- Louisiana, Newberry and Paine Colleges and South Carolina State -- on probation.

Colorado's fix for remedial education is multipronged rather than heavy-handed, and it seems to be working.

Too many colleges are focusing their analysis of student data to find the students likeliest to fail. Instead, they should identify which interventions will help which groups of students succeed, Dave Jarrat writes.

Text messages encouraging first-year community college students to fill out federal student aid form boost persistence to sophomore year, study finds.

Higher-income students benefit most from the extracurricular student engagements a recent Gallup-Purdue study identified, writes Lauren Schudde.