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The bright lights of network television and Coca-Cola sponsorships of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament tend to obscure the fact that the teams playing represent, you know, actual institutions of higher learning. Here's how affordable it is to attend the top 16 in the tournament.

I want to know what’s going to happen with the farm workers,” she said, through a translator. “Are you going to include us in this?” Bhandary-Alexander said the hearing “couldn’t have been any better,” as a way to connect policy issues with individual narratives. The board heard from economic

That might prompt U.S. colleges to look to other countries for recruitment. Tuition from non-U.S. students can be as high as three times the rate paid by students attending their state colleges, according to The Journal. American families are increasingly struggling to pay college costs that have

Under New York’s proposed paid family leave law, businesses won’t pay anything for the new family leave benefit. The program would be funded entirely by a small payroll deduction from each worker in the state. An insurance provider will pay the benefits out to workers. It’s certainly not the most

Further, African American students take out more loans — and more often — to finance their undergraduate education than any other ethnic group. A report by the public policy organization Demos found that 80 percent of black students take on debt, compared with 63 percent of white and Latino students

That might prompt U.S. colleges to look to other countries for recruitment. Tuition from non-U.S. students can be as high as three times the rate paid by students attending their state colleges, according to The Journal. American families are increasingly struggling to pay college costs that have

The scheme to use race to divide Americans who would otherwise be united in their economic goals is the best-kept secret in American politics.

How the single most important solution to economic inequality isn’t an economic policy, it’s tackling racism.

Mark Huelsman, a senior policy analyst focusing on higher education at the nonpartisan think tank Demos, is also critical of the Department of Education: “The problem that we’ve seen over the past year and a half is that the effort to ensure that Corinthian’s fall wasn’t a total catastrophe is not

Paid family leave is finally gaining steam in the United States. President Obama and the Democratic presidential candidates universally embrace the idea. And while a conservative Congress may stymie federal action for years, states from New York to Colorado to Oregon are moving toward implementing