Libby Nelson
Former Editorial Director, Politics & Policy
Latest articles by Libby Nelson
At a town hall, Obama made a forceful argument for the value of higher education to create a well-rounded person.
You don’t have to wait to finish your income taxes to file the FAFSA anymore.
At one-quarter of US colleges, most students make less than the typical high school graduate 10 years after they enroll.
Students at for-profit and community colleges, already marginalized to begin with, are bearing the brunt of student loan defaults.
The bizarre fight over cursive handwriting, explained in 2 minutes.
Teens aren’t lazy, researchers argue — the adult world needs to adjust to their biological sleep patterns.
Just 40 percent of millennials admit they’re millennials. (A confused 8 percent think they’re baby boomers.)
High school seniors are doing worse on the college readiness test than they have in the past decade. But it’s too soon to panic.
A new paper argues that as many as 145,000 premature deaths could have been prevented if people were more educated.
There are 8 states where a part-time minimum wage job will earn enough in a year to pay tuition. And that doesn’t even count room and board.