If you look just at completion rates for individual online courses, they seem like a bad option. A growing body of research shows that community-college students are much more likely to fail a class ...

A recent st u dy has found that instructors and the teaching practices they use—or don’t—are more than twice as influential in predicting learning outcomes than students’ prior academic performance.

It feels like an ocean’s worth of ink has been dedicated to the rising cost of college. From press coverage to the latest public opinion polls to the drumbeat of proposals for “free college,” you ...

“There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.” –Niccolo Machiavell ...

College completion is perhaps the most commonly used metric to gauge student success. Although there have been some improvements in the past decade, gains in college completion have not been ...

Despite the growing popularity of online learning among postsecondary students, several reports last year, including one from the online education company LearnDash, found that the average completion ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The Joe Biden Administration’s proposal for student debt relief has sparked a ...

Developmental education has come under scrutiny for delaying students’ academic attainment and overall degree progression. While the purpose of remedial courses is to prepare learners to succeed in ...

I met my wife the first day of college. According to our wedding announcement in the New York Times, she remembered “going to her first class… without doing her homework. She was not alone. ‘We were ...

Many colleges use one test to decide whether incoming freshmen have to take remedial courses, a turning point that can slow down—or block—their progress toward graduation. But a new study shows that ...