As for-profit colleges learn to survive with fewer students, the rise of free online courses raises new questions.

Billionaire Stephen Schwarzman is spearheading a $300 million scholarship fund for top students from the U.S., Europe, and Latin America to spend a year in China. With philanthropy, comes influence.

EdX, a Harvard-MIT project, will offer essay grading software to colleges free of charge. You might imagine that teachers and professors would embrace the labor saving. But, not all do.

School lunch programs with stricter nutrition standards may be helping to reduce obesity in children, especially those who receive free or reduced lunches.

Given the dismal outlook of State budgets across the country, public universities will have to find a way to compete for talent with fewer resources than their private counterparts.

EdX is launching a new free online service that grades papers and provides instant feedback on student essays.

Most of the $100 million donation has been spent on brokering a new teachers contract that creates performance-based pay and opening new schools.

Key figures in the Atlanta school cheating scandal admit to the practice, but did we learn anything about incentives?

April 1 is the deadline for most colleges and universities to let applicants know whether they've been accepted — or not. Already, families have spent thousands on the process.

The private college 529 plan allows parents to prepay tuition at today's rates at some universities. The only hitch? Their kid has to get in.