Legacy Topic: Education

The online video service offers teachers hundreds of instructional math videos, for free. But what about the human touch?

Taxpayers spend about $600 billion a year on K through 12 education. Philanthropists only spend around four billion. But they get a lot for their money.

The countdown begins in Washington to come up with a budget before midnight tomorrow, and one place cuts could come from are federal student loan programs.

The state will take another $200 million from public universities in the state. What's left to cut?

Philanthropists are funneling big money into public education. Are they too powerful?

Philanthropist Eli Broad discusses the problems with education and his ideas on how to fix it.

President Obama meets at the White House today with a small group of university and college presidents on how to reduce the cost of higher education. But the answers might have to come from the schools themselves.

700,000 students enrolled at U.S. university and college campuses last year from abroad, contributing $21 billion to the U.S. economy, according to a new report.

They are plentiful, they pay full tuition and American colleges and universities are eager to enroll them -- despite questions about their credentials.

Student loan debt is expected to hit $1 trillion this year. The biggest provider of those loans by far is the federal government. Today, a committee in the House is looking into how a big change in the student loan program is working out.