Articles
Weak Financial Literacy Scores Threaten a Global Education Movement
The FINRA 2012 National Financial Capability study results are due out soon and likely will show no improvement in individuals' money management skills. With so...
Higher (Cost) Education
We’ve known for a long time that the cost of college education has gone through the roof. But who’d have thunk it’s affecting elementary schools as well?It’s a...
We’re Doing a Lousy Job of Getting Poor Kids to College
For low-income students in the United States, the college math is bleak: only one-third of kids from families at or below the poverty line attend college, and...
Budget Cuts Nix $90 Million in Federal College Aid
(WASHINGTON) — Schools near military bases and tribal lands will face a $60 million shortfall between now and September and aid to college students will be cut...
Minerva Aims to be an Online Ivy League University
Online learning has been trumpeted by everyone from academics to politicians to venture capitalists as a way to improve access to education. But now a novel idea...
Photo Essays
LIFE and Civil Rights: Segregation in 1956 South Carolina
In late 1956, over the course of several months, LIFE published what the magazine itself described as “a series of major articles on the background of the crisis...
Brave Hearts: Remembering the Little Rock Nine, 1957
Beyond religion, beyond class, beyond politics and ideology, for centuries race been the single most contentious, corrosive question in America’s dialog with...
Time.com Specials
TIME's 12 Education Activists for 2012
What do an old-school game designer, the current NCAA chief and Maggie Gyllenhaal have in common? They're all on TIME's list of the 12 education activists to...
The 20 Best- and Worst-Paid College Majors
A new report shows some undergraduate degrees pay off more than others — literally. Using data from the U.S. Census, the Georgetown University Center on...
