Legacy Topic: Education

Students are looking for more luxurious digs and colleges are starting to look to private companies to build them.

They're looking into trading their business-y jargon for education speak in hopes of taking the "for-profit" perception out of for-profit colleges and universities.

Total outstanding student loan debt is expected to surpass a trillion dollars in 2012. So what does that mean for education and the economy?

The amount U.S. graduates owe on education loans could become a bigger drag on the economy than the nation's total credit card debt.

The U.S. has reached a major education milestone. For the fist time ever, more than 30 percent of U.S. adults have a college degree. In 1998, less than a quarter of the population had graduated.

For the first time, more than 30 percent of American's have at least a bachelor's, according to the Census Bureau. But there is a growing racial gap between the haves and have nots.

A new study reports that student debt in this country could be the next “debt bomb," a major economic threat not unlike the mortgage crisis. And this time, there’s no way to get rid of the debt through bankruptcy.

A district court has ruled that the state's public schools are so underfunded they can't meet the Colorado's own education standards. But the legal battle is just the beginning. A real solution may depend on taxpayers.

A group of recent law graduates sues a dozen law schools, saying the institutions misled them about job and salary prospects.

California-based liberal arts college Claremont McKenna says a school official cheated in reporting SAT scores to places like U.S. News & World Report, which ranks colleges across the country.