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.