Government

To distress of advocates, Education Department tells civil rights investigators to focus on individual complaints -- and not automatically go beyond them -- in looking for history of discrimination at institutions.

But avoid legislation that would cap bachelor’s degree programs and create new oversight board.

Trump administration will suspend borrower defense and renegotiate gainful employment, two Obama administration rules aimed at reining in for-profit colleges. Moves draw rebukes from Democrats and student advocates.

Trump administration’s apprenticeship push will include call for up to $200 million in new funding, a less balky federal registration process and more participation by noncollege education providers.

The Department of Education appears ready to update the College Scorecard later this year.

Many find her claim about “unsettled law” to be dubious and an abdication of her agency's civil rights responsibilities.

Liberty University president, a major Trump ally, won’t be leading review of regulation, although he says he will be part of another administration group with other college presidents.

Who knew that Donald Trump would be good for the book trade, asks Jeffrey J. Williams, and especially one novel published almost 70 years ago?