Facing a fierce backlash after she called historically black colleges and universities “real pioneers” of school choice, Betsy DeVos, the education secretary, spent Tuesday afternoon backtracking on the controversial statement and highlighting the institutions’ roots in racism and segregation.

The proliferation of online tools allowing students to paraphrase academic work for their own assignments is facilitating plagiarism, according to the author of new research in the area.

The White House budget office has drafted a hit list of programs that President Trump could eliminate to trim domestic spending...

Black students graduate, on average, at a rate 22 percentage points lower than white students. Closing that gap will require individual institutions to improve completion rates and highly selective colleges to enroll more black students, a new report says.

With just a few clicks, people from across the world can have access to free online classes taught by a Purdue University professor.

There are "just weeks" to secure the future of a world-leading research facility on UK soil in the wake of the government's decision to leave the European Atomic Energy Community as part of Brexit.

Education secretary's remarks astound many advocates for colleges that were created because black students were denied choices.

Officials overseeing endowments at some of Indiana’s smaller colleges and universities have cut back on spending, or are considering doing so, after struggling to grow the size of their funds over the past decade.

Resurrected from the brink of closure in 2015, Sweet Briar College officials are working to keep the private all-women’s school alive, despite ongoing challenges.

“Some of our friends couldn’t make it.”