College Abacus is a free online tool for students and families to compare college pricing -- using net-price estimates taken from colleges and federal databases. Read more...

Nearly 140,000 people have signed an online petition opposing a “Buddhist-inspired” university’s pursuit of permission to exterminate a community of prairie dogs living on one of its campuses. Read more...

With just a week before the federal Perkins Loan program is set to expire, a bipartisan effort to extend the program emerged in the U.S. House on Thursday. Read more...

The laptop continues to be the go-to device for students, whether for educational or personal use, according to a new survey conducted by Harris Poll and sponsored by Pearson. Read more...

Excelencia in Education on Tuesday added 20 new entrants to its inventory of educational programs that help more Latino students earn college degrees. Read more...

The U.S. Department Education said Tuesday it is poised to release an extensive reference guide for institutions that are participating in an experiment on competency-based education. Read more...

Flipping the classroom is particularly beneficial for women and students with low grades, according to a new study by researchers at Yale University and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Read more...

The student body president at the University of Southern California, who was born in India, has set off a broad discussion on campus by reporting what happened to her while walking by a fraternity house, The Los Angeles Times reported. Read more...

Federal regulation of government-funded research at colleges and universities is so burdensome on the institutions that it's diminishing the effectiveness of federal investment in research, a new report published Wednesday says. Read more...

Cengage Learning is expanding its presence in the online program management market with the acquisition of ed-tech company Learning Objects and its learning platform, Difference Engine. Read more...