Every year, millions of would-be students must decide whether it is worth pursuing a college or professional degree.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Mary Hemphill is a global leadership strategist & EdTech expert. In 2025, the intersection of traditional education with ...

The world has seen remarkable progress in the global expansion of access to education in the 80 years since UNESCO was founded. In 1950, only around 47 per cent of the world’s children aged 5–14 were ...

The new Education Department in 1980 promulgated its first disparate-impact regulations and updated them over the years. In 2001, the Supreme Court in Alexander v. Sandoval ruled that there was no ...

One common misconception about education degrees is that they're only useful for future classroom teachers. However, education degrees can lead to all sorts of careers: They're often held by education ...

New state rankings from U.S. News and World Report show Colorado losing ground in several areas, but not education.

The U.S. Department of Education has begun outsourcing responsibility for overseeing the nation’s sprawling special education system and enforcing civil rights law in schools to other federal agencies ...

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

A lot depends on your field and how far along you are in your career Higher education often leads to better job stability and higher pay. Education is more important early in a career, but experience ...