Last week the for-profit behemoth University of Phoenix said it would close 115 locations. The move comes on the heels of a late September decision by Kaplan Higher Education to stop new enrollment at ...

One now-closed Kansas City school isn’t representative of all these institutions, which are a better fit for some young people to learn. Getty Images The last four years of the Biden administration ...

WHY IS “FOR-PROFIT” SUCH A BAD WORD IN EDUCATION? Call me crazy, but I thought making a profit was one of the most important things that a good business needed to do. Just because you run a business ...

For-profit colleges are businesses that aim to generate profit for their owners and investors. These colleges offer career training and degrees, but they've been subject to criticism and, in some ...

For-profit education has taken heat lately, and that heat turned up considerably this week with a The New York Times story on Kaplan. The Times' Tamar Lewin documents how the test-prep company has ...