The education secretary and Democrats on the House education committee tussled over caps on federal student loans, what role the government should play in trying to improve abysmal literacy rates —and whether the U.S. Department of Education should exist at all.
The biggest payoffs for students seeking bachelor's degrees occurred in engineering and architecture; business and economics; and security and protective services degrees.
"Our grading is too compressed and too inflated, as nearly all faculty recognize; it is also too inconsistent, as students have observed," Dean of Undergraduate Education Amanda Claybaugh wrote in a 2025 report.
The summer will see the biggest shake-up to federal student aid in decades. New borrowing caps, the elimination of Grad PLUS loans, and altered Pell Grant eligibility all take effect this July, presenting students and families with yet another wave of complexities to decode. But these changes are just the latest wrinkles in a process […]
People without a high school diploma earn roughly $10,000 less per year than those with one, a gap that adult education programs, which are largely free, are designed to close.
