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Sports figures running for political office usually fall into one of two categories: the ex-athlete turned legislator (U.S. Sen. Jim...

Secretary favors student database and grants to colleges that measure learning, but calls discussion of Pell expansion premature.

Female professors are less likely than men to feel they know what is expected of them to earn tenure, study finds.

Computer science -- like many dot.com businesses of a few years back -- has experienced a boom and bust in...

GAO finds that letting some colleges jointly set aid policies doesn't result in students paying more -- or less.

Education Dept. tweaks rules for prep program, but critics say they would turn some poor students into guinea pigs for others.

There is no contest: By far, college officials' favorite element of the final report of the Secretary of Education's Commission...