University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley keeps tuition low and offers generous aid to its majority-Hispanic student body. The results are paying off.

When the University of Michigan made a minor change to how it talks about financial aid, enrollment among kids from low-income families surged.

A school in San Francisco lets unhoused students and their families sleep on site. The students who stay there are improving scholastically.

Defying the odds, Black girls are graduating at a higher rate than any other demographic in the city’s public schools.

In a divided country, experiencing another state can expand your worldview as much as studying abroad.

As the U.S. considers universal preschool, Alabama’s free pre-K stands out as a model for long-term, bipartisan success.

Focus, teamwork, grit: High-performing athletes possess many of the attributes physicians need — and could be the key to getting more Black men into medicine.

A movement to empower formerly incarcerated people to become lawyers is changing the criminal justice system from the inside out.

An experiment in shuffling kids from school to school saw more families stick with the public system.

When an Indiana school district ran short on student case managers, it looked to its road warriors for help.

Elaborate, over-programmed playgrounds increasingly dictate how kids should use them. Can a new type of playscape unwrite the script?

Youth involved in gun violence would rather be working than shooting. One group decided to give them what they want.

What happens when incarcerated people see a correctional officer not as an overlord, but as someone who can help?

Some universities are offering college credits as industry-recognized certificates instead, allowing students to use them in the job market long before they graduate.

In North Carolina, teens who were once at risk of being locked up have created a place where good things grow.

A new report shows a correlation that’s held for decades: People with more education are more involved in the arts. Or is it the other way around?

A school in Detroit deploys counselors to make sure its graduates are staying on the collegiate track. Unlock your phones, kids.

Soaring tuition and slipping graduation rates have challenged the UC system’s renown. Now, an attempt to restore its former glory is underway.

An A+ for accountability? How one school grades students’ “character data” as much as their homework, and gets a decent report card on future success

Raised on the plains of North Carolina by parents who grew up in the segregated South, I wasn’t put on the “Harvard track” early. I got there anyway—thanks to one of the best-kept secrets in higher education.

College degree programs like the Bard Prison Initiative give jailed students a chance to thrive once they’re released—and drive down the costs of incarceration for us all.

I hated school—until I got slapped with a 15-year prison sentence and discovered calculus, Mandarin and the college degree I never knew I wanted.

At Fugees Academy, students who arrived in the U.S. as refugees—sometimes without parents or English skills—are graduating at a rate of 90 percent.

Before they became places to warehouse so-called problem kids, alternative learning centers were designed to help at-risk students succeed. Some are rediscovering that mission.