In New Mexico, a family of four making up to $124,000 a year can now send their kids to day care for free. That’s twice the state’s median income.

Falling birth rates, urban migration and school choice are keeping public school rosters down in North Carolina, especially in small towns.

Haskell Indian Nations University and Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute each initially lost about 20% of their staff.

Being able to successfully navigate disagreement — including tricky political conversations — is an attractive skill to many employers.

Colleges provide economic and social benefits for their surrounding communities.

Thirty-six states require students to take a personal finance course to graduate. We visit classrooms to learn how it works.

Texas would join a growing number of states that have invested in private education in recent years.

The decline can lead to poor health outcomes and a loss of GDP, says Daphne Greenberg of Georgia State University.

Roughly half of international students are from China or India — and many are grad students or recent graduates permitted to work on a student visa for a time after graduation.

This decline in freshmen is particularly notable at four-year schools — less so at community colleges — and there are a number of reasons for it.