This brief reviews the teacher prep and certification policies that preceded HB 2 in Texas.

This brief reviews the teacher prep and certification policies that preceded HB 2 in Texas.

On October 1, New America will host a live discussion to explore the legacy of the Higher Education Act.

New America's interdisciplinary team conducts research, policy analysis, and advocacy work in the student parent space.

Policy changes at the U.S. Census Bureau threaten the agency’s impartiality, increase underrepresentation, and erode federal funding.

The Cohort Default Rate measures whether institutions leave significant shares of their borrowers unable to repay.

With her senior year of college now underway, Mitzie Westgate has begun planning what she’ll do after graduation next spring. An exercise science major, she hopes to go straight to graduate school and pursue a doctorate in occupational therapy so she can open a nonprofit to help children with disabilities like her cousin, who has cerebral palsy. But thanks to unprecedented confusion around federal student loans, she can’t firm up plans or even decide where to apply until she sees how the chaos shakes out. “It’s kind of up in the air whether I’ll be able to pay for college” after this year, said Westgate, a 21-year-old senior at the College of Charleston in South Carolina.

Analyzing and communicating the impact of school funding policies, and charting a path toward better, more equitable approaches.

This report outlines research findings and shares recommendations for how colleges can support parenting students with child their care needs.

This policy agenda outlines federal and state strategies to strengthen support for student parents and advance a more accessible child care system.

This virtual briefing will provide an overview of the unique needs of pregnant and parenting students, along with new state policy tools.

Occupations like air traffic controllers surpass traditional skilled trades in earnings but still require certification or specialized training, a study found.

The Cohort Default Rate measures whether institutions leave significant shares of their borrowers unable to repay.

Maestro College, which used an AI chatbot in lieu of real instructors, is set to have its accreditation revoked after a New America investigation.

Too many political analysts and pollsters are relying on education to define the working class, and it’s leading us to the wrong conclusions.

American children are in trouble. After generations of improvement, test scores are declining and fewer children are showing up to class. COVID-19 knocked school systems off-kilter, disrupting the ste...

American children are in trouble. After generations of improvement, test scores are declining and fewer children are showing up to class. COVID-19 knocked school systems off-kilter, disrupting the ste...

America's most ambitious AI policies are still taking shape, but Congress has low-hanging fruit it should act on to build capacity of community colleges for the AI era.

New America partnered with the Eviction Lab to understand how eviction affects parents who are attending college while caring for children—and found it likely leads to severe negative consequences.

One in five young parenting students face eviction each year. New Eviction Lab data show enrollment offers far less protection than it should.

For parenting students ages 35–39, college enrollment is associated with eviction rates double those of non-student parents.

Colleges around the country are seeking approval for a new federal grant program, Workforce Pell, to aid students enrolled for short-term job training.

Laura Bornfreund on how schools, families and policymakers can transform kindergarten to better support young children.

This brief offers concrete guidance for institutions seeking to collect this information accurately and in ways appropriate to their legal and instituti…

Lawmakers have reintroduced the Understanding Student Parent Outcomes Act, a bill that would require colleges to collect comprehensive data on parenting students and better support their academic succ...