Education

At the age of 91 Ray Bradbury, author of Farenheit 451 among other sci-fi classics, passed away in Los Angeles last Tuesday. Always the avid reader, Bradbury once confessed "'Libraries raised me…I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.” But could a young

Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s recent push for a longer Chicago school day has sparked some heated debate, both in his city and around the country, about whether more class time actually produces better results in student performance. Now two new studies have emerged about the subject, both drawing

Student loan debt has reached a total of one trillion dollars due to rising tuition costs. Since 1980, the cost of a 4-year college education has increased 827%. The average grad now has to take out $25,000 of student loans to offset this soaring cost. As borrowers struggle to pay back their loans,

In 2009, for-profit schools took in almost as much GI Bill money as not-for-profit schools, though they enrolled only a third as many veterans. Some of these schools have taken outright advantage of vets just to get to GI Bill funds. An investigation by the Government Accountability Office found