Recent history shows us that a concerted nationwide effort can improve students' outcomes, such as the gains made in high school graduation rates over the past 20 years.

Although more "postmortem" is needed to determine the full impact of the massive delays and confusion that plagued the government's botched rollout of its revised Free Application for Federal Student Aid last term, admissions directors at Iowa's public universities last week recounted the ramifications for their campuses, their applicants and their returning students. "We still, […]

The report's authors noted that this gap may vary—or even be wider—at institutions that do not stress discipline as intensely as West Point. Also: what does this presidential candidate's bid to cut "unnecessary" college degree mean for you?