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Billionaire hedge fund manager Dan Loeb apologized after writing a racial insult on Facebook about a black state senator, The New York Times reported. Loeb, who’s chairman of the board of Success Academy Charter Schools, accused Senator Andrea Stewart-Cousins, an African-American woman who’s the Democratic leader in the New York State Senate, of having done […]

A great education doesn’t have to cost a fortune — especially in high school. Niche, a company that researches and compiles information on schools, released its 2018 rankings of the best public high schools in the US. The ranking analyzed 17,867 public high schools and rated schools in areas like academics, teachers, student culture and […]

The University of Colorado Boulder launched a program in 2013 to bring conservative professors to its ultraliberal campus. The first person tapped, Steven Hayward, stirred up controversy during his yearlong position, but administrators didn’t mind. Other liberal colleges have begun to adopt similar programs to diversify thought on their campuses. When Steven Hayward stepped onto […]

Solon City School District (SCSD) houses the best public schools in America, according to a new list from academic review site Niche.com. The district is located in Solon, Ohio — a 23,000 person suburb of Cleveland — and hosts six Kindergarten-through-eighth grade schools and one high school. There are 4,720 students in the district, which […]

The National Advertising Division is recommending that Betsy DeVos’ brain-training company remove misleading claims from its website. Neurocore LLC advertises that it can help treat ADHD, anxiety, and depression without medication. Such neurofeedback training is gaining popularity worldwide, but the science is far from settled. An investigative unit overseen by the Better Business Bureau has […]

College endowments had a massive rebound in 2017, thanks to a stock market rally that followed President Trump’s surprise win, Bloomberg reported. The rebound comes a year after 2016, when endowments experienced their worst year since the recession. For college endowments with more than $500 million, the median investment gain was 13.3%, and for all […]

Facebook has killed Lifestage, the standalone app it released almost one year ago as a dedicated social network for high schoolers. Lifestage was pulled from the App Store on August 4, a Facebook spokesperson confirmed to Business Insider on Tuesday. The Snapchat-like app hadn’t been updated for months and never managed to crack the App […]

Malia Obama is taking advantage of time off before starting at Harvard University. The former president’s daughter has been taking a “gap year” before classes start this fall. Malia was most recently shown dancing to The Killers at Lollapalooza festival in Chicago this weekend, in footage obtained by TMZ. Here’s a look at her life […]

Around the US, students are gearing up to head back to school. “First kid” Tiffany Trump, President Trump’s youngest daughter, is set to start her first year at Georgetown Law School. And former “first kid” Malia Obama, after taking a gap year, is about to start classes at Harvard. With that in mind, we looked […]

For the first time in its nearly 400-year history, Harvard has admitted a majority nonwhite class, The Boston Globe reported. Official figures released by the college show that the entering class of 2021 is: • 22.2% Asian American • 14.6% African American • 11.6% Hispanic or Latino • 2.5% Native American or Pacific Islander Of […]

Retail giants like Target, Lowe’s, and Home Depot are fighting to pay less taxes. When they win, schools end up losing billions of dollars, Edweek reported. In what is often described as a tax loophole, these retailers utilize a legal argument dubbed the “dark store theory” to decrease their annual property taxes. They say that […]

You don’t need a four-year degree to pursue a high-paying job. According to the latest data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are plenty of jobs that pay more than $77,000 and require only a two-year associate degree, postsecondary nondegree certificate, or even just a high-school diploma. Below are the 10 highest-paying jobs […]

In 2016 the US Supreme Court ruled in favor of affirmative action at the University of Texas-Austin (UT), further validating the use of race in admissions policies around the country. The efforts of opponents of affirmative action were temporarily stymied, but they have reemerged with a lawsuit against Harvard University claiming the school discriminates against […]

• Caltech professor Christian Ott has resigned after claims he sexually harassed two of his students. • Ott had been suspended from campus since the fall of 2015. • His resignation came as the school was deciding whether to allow him to return to campus. Christian Ott, a “rising star” in the astrophysics department at […]

In the United States, the site of a yellow bus bouncing down the road is practically synonymous with school. But in other parts of the world, the trek to school looks much different. Some kids in the Philippines step through knee-deep rocky waters to get to class, while students in Japan pass Geiger counters tracking […]

The Trump administration is reportedly floating the possibility of investigating affirmative-action practices on college campuses, according to a New York Times report citing internal documents from the US Justice Department’s civil rights division. That arm of the DOJ is reportedly seeking lawyers who would be tasked with investigating, and possibly suing, higher-education institutions over alleged […]

Student loan debt can feel like a dark rain cloud hanging over your head. But, if your debt isn’t included in the $5 billion in student loan debt that may be thrown out due to shoddy paperwork practices, you’ll likely have to bite the bullet and pay it off. While you’re paying off your debt, […]

Earlier this year, the hazing death of 19-year-old student Timothy Piazza during a pledge event at Penn State’s Beta Theta Pi fraternity shocked the country. The death garnered attention due to its highly documented, visual nature. (Security footage provided a detailed account of events on the night of his death.) In just the past few […]

If you want to go to college, it’s more expensive than ever. Tuition at both public and private schools in the US continues to rise at a fast clip, and Americans collectively owe more than $1.3 trillion in student loan debt. Using data from The Chronicle of Higher Education‘s interactive chart, Business Insider rounded up […]

To become a master of something, at least in the academic world, you have to earn your master’s degree, which usually requires an additional year or two of schooling after acquiring your bachelor’s degree. Few master’s degrees come cheaply, as Business Insider previously reported. According to a 2014 study from college planning site EAdvisors, more […]

Disappearing student loan debt is a dream for many borrowers. But for tens of thousands of student borrowers, that dream could become a reality. Billions of dollars in student loans may be wiped out because the lender — The National Collegiate Student Loan Trusts — didn’t keep track of the paperwork. For the rest of […]

President Donald Trump is donating his second-quarter White House salary of $100,000 to the Department of Education, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced Wednesday. “It’s that time again, as many of you have probably noticed, … for us to announce where the president will be donating his quarterly salary,” Sanders said. “This quarter the president […]

The Fender Musical Instruments Corporation has been around since 1946 and has created some of the most iconic implements for creating cool sounds in the history of humanity. The Telecaster and Stratocaster electric guitars are icons of rock, pop, country, and just about everything in between. Bruce Springsteen, Chrissie Hynde, Buddy Holly, Mark Knopfler, the […]

Borrowers who default on their student loans are pursued aggressively by the Department of Education and private debt collectors, facing garnished wages, withheld IRS tax returns, and decreased Social Security payments, Reuters reported. “We treat struggling student-loan borrowers the same as deadbeat parents and tax cheats,” Seth Frotman, a senior member of the Consumer Financial […]

Business school admissions are competitive, with schools looking for the right mix of experience, undergraduate grades, and GMAT test scores. With so many components of an MBA application, sometimes it’s unclear what stands out most to a reviewer. Isser Gallogly, associate dean of MBA Admissions at New York University’s Stern School of Business, visited Business […]

College affordability has become the preeminent issue in higher education, as student-debt figures have hit staggering levels. While most conversations center on ballooning tuition costs, which have long surpassed the rate inflation of other consumer goods, last year tuition costs grew at the slowest pace in decades, The Wall Street Journal reported. Labor Department data […]

College is a costly endeavor, that’s no secret. But paying for it doesn’t have to be a huge financial burden, so long as you’re saving the right way. According to a new report from Sallie Mae, one of the smartest ways to save for college is grossly underutilized by Americans: the 529 college savings plan. […]

The key to writing a business school essay that will get you noticed requires you asking one question: Does this sound like me? “The general principle about what stands out are people who are really speaking from the heart,” Isser Gallogly, associate dean of MBA Admissions at New York University’s Stern School of Business, told […]

Attending college is a cornerstone of the American Dream, but the path to get there looks different for everyone. A new report from student loan lender Sallie Mae found that families living in the Northeast are more likely than the rest of the US to consider the quality of a university’s academic program when choosing […]

Grades aren’t enough. To get into top business school programs, you must not only prove yourself academically capable, but also demonstrate you have certain personality traits that signal to schools you will be an exemplary business professional. Many of those softer skills come through clearest in the admissions essay, which means people often try and […]

Whoever said that a college degree isn’t worth the paper it’s written on never considered becoming an engineer. Typically, you need a bachelor’s degree to do that, and whether you want to go into architecture or aerospace, you don’t need any more education to earn around $100,000 a year as an engineer. Don’t want to […]

More high school students in the US are graduating than ever before, in part because of rising grade-point averages. But a new study suggests the trend isn’t cause for celebration. Over the last two decades, high school GPAs have risen considerably while SAT scores have fallen. To the researchers behind the study, the conflicting trends […]

A business school application has a number of components that you must nail in order to earn a school’s acceptance. But with so many different places to potentially screw up, the whole process can be nerve-racking. Luckily, the worst thing you can do is easy to avoid. “I think the worst thing you can do […]

Ivy League colleges are notoriously tough to get into. Their acceptance rates range from 5.2% to 12.5%, and former Ivy League admissions directors say it’s harder than ever to gain acceptance to the schools. So you might be surprised to learn that other schools have even lower acceptance rates. Business Insider listed schools that are […]

Education is meant to enrich students, and part of that experience is ensuring that they learn in a quality environment. This year’s shortlist for the World Architecture Festival, held over three days in November in Berlin, Germany, include feats of educational design from the US, France, Vietnam, India, and everywhere in between. Here’s a sampling […]

A top official in President Donald Trump’s Education Department said she believes that nine out of 10 sexual assault cases can be summarized by “we were both drunk.” On Thursday, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is meeting with various advocates and university officials as part of efforts to review former President Barack Obama’s policies on how […]

Finding a college that offers rigorous coursework at an affordable price which yields a competitive future earnings is hard enough. Add close proximity to the beach, and your options are limited. Money.com did just that, and pegged the best US colleges for people who love the beach. The ranking started out with the same analysis […]

The price of college in the US continues to tick upward. Today, the average annual cost to attend a public university is about $19,000, and for a private university that figure is about $42,000. Now more than ever it seems that college students must think carefully about choosing their college majors and the future earning […]

“Personalized learning” is one of the trendiest educational theories in Silicon Valley right now. It involves each student learning at his or her own pace, generally through the aid of technology, and it’s beloved by tech billionaires like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg. But both Gates and Zuckerberg, in addition to other big names in […]

Dozens of text messages from Penn State fraternity brothers were read in court on Monday during a preliminary hearing on the hazing death of Tim Piazza, Buzzfeed News reported. “I think we are f—ed. Like beyond f—ed,” Beta Theta Pi fraternity brother Daniel Casey texted his girlfriend in February, according to Buzzfeed. “I don’t want […]

Enrollment at the University of Missouri is plummeting two years after the school was rocked by racially charged protests, according to a New York Times report on Monday. Freshman enrollment at the school has fallen 35% since 2015, costing it millions of dollars in lost tuition, and leaving it desperate for funding, the Times reported. […]

Most Republicans now believe that colleges and universities have a negative impact on America. The gap between how Republicans and Democrats view American education systems has grown even wider in recent years, a new study published Monday by the Pew Research Center reveals. While 72% of Democrats believe that colleges and universities have a positive […]

The price of college in the US continues to tick upward. Today, the average annual cost to attend a public university is about $19,000, and for a private university that figure is about $42,000. With that in mind, Money.com ranked the best colleges for your money, and dubbed them the “paycheck league.” The ranking looked […]

Supreme Court Justice John Roberts gave a New Hampshire boarding school graduation speech to Cardigan Mountain School students in June, and imparted some wisdom that he said could make a big difference in graduates’ lives. “Once a week, you should write a note to someone,” Roberts told graduating ninth graders. “Not an email. A note […]