On October 17, AEI’s Beth Akers hosted economists, policy experts, and practitioners at AEI to discuss the prospect of holding institutions of higher learning accountable for the economic outcomes of ...

On May 21, AEI’s Beth Akers and Preston Cooper spoke with Alex Ricci of the National Council of Higher Education Resources and Sarah Sattelmeyer of New America to discuss the fast-approaching “student ...

How might layoffs at the Department of Education affect its core functions? NPR speaks with education scholar Beth Akers, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. The U.S. Department of ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Given the high cost of college tuition and concerns about college loan debt among American college students, students and their families must make good decisions to ensure ...

The U.S. Department of Education says that despite laying off nearly half its staff, it will continue to deliver all the programs that are protected by law. Federal student aid is the biggest division ...