For $1,450 to $7,300, New Oriental Education & Technology Group will help a Chinese student get into college in America. According to the company, that fee covers coaching, school-searching, and “polishing” application essays—and according to its actual workers, it covers straight-up fraud.
You’d think something as publicly and deeply criticized as the US’s for-profit education sector—charged in recent years with fraud, misinformation, and leading students to rack up enormous and unnecessary debt—would be falling apart at the seams by now. Yet it’s not so.
Barack Obama’s expansion of the student-loan repayment program, intended to help curb America’s $1.26 trillion pile of outstanding college debt, is proving a lot more costly.
There wouldn’t be any fun in owning a colossal trove of user data without getting to poke at it a little.
In an instance of the punishment possibly being harsher than the crime, a Canadian police department is subjecting drunk drivers this holiday season to music from possibly the world’s most hated band.
Donald Trump vowed during his campaign to deport millions of illegal immigrants from the country. For many US universities, particularly those with significant numbers of undocumented students studying under the protection of a 2012 policy instituted by the Obama administration, this is unacceptable.
Chaos broke out at Ohio State University today (Nov. 28) in the immediate aftermath of a violent attack.
Donald Trump insists that he “never” settles lawsuits, but here we go again. The US president-elect just agreed to settle the multiple cases against his former for-profit university for $25 million. He will also pay up to $1 million in penalties to the state of New York.
Kanye West, who still plans to run for president in 2020, is already pulling his first campaign stunt. The hip-hop artist pressed pause on his show last night in San Jose, California for a full 40 minutes to talk politics—and specifically Donald Trump.
Add the Nobel Prize ceremony to the list of things Bob Dylan is too big for.
Remember when Frank Ocean pulled one over on the music industry earlier this year? The enigmatic R&B artist dropped two projects within two days: Endless, the visual streaming-only album that he and his record label Def Jam had agreed upon, and then also Blonde, a surprise second release independently distributed and marketed.
America’s biggest and most prestigious national publications spectacularly failed to predict Donald Trump’s presidential win last week. And whether or not that failure might have played a role in the election result itself, a lot of these papers and digital outlets—the majority of which tend to slant toward liberal viewpoints—are now reckoning with the fallout.
A certain restlessness is plaguing America’s schools, after Donald Trump cinched an unexpected presidential victory last week. Coming on top of reports of bullying and social unease on schools, a high-school history teacher was put on leave after he compared Trump to Adolf Hitler.
Awkward is the idea of a president-elect going to trial for fraud between his election and inauguration. Which is why the Trump University lawsuit may be fizzling out.
It was five years in the making.
That the media didn’t foresee Donald Trump’s win is, ironically, part of the reason they are being blamed with such force for it.
At the end of the month, a class-action lawsuit against president-elect Donald Trump’s former university—one of several—will go to trial. Media coverage and public allegations around the business have been plentiful.
President-elect Donald Trump—the sheer idea of which is still strange to think about—has remained relatively quiet thus far in a number of policy areas, education among them. Investors in that space, however, seem to think they know his plans.
A silver lining, of sorts, to last night’s unexpected Donald Trump victory: Pharma bro Martin Shkreli is making good on his word to put out his unreleased Wu-Tang Clan album.
It’s come to this. We need Yeezus to save us.
After one of the most bitter elections in the country’s history, Donald Trump has been elected the 45th president of the United States.
Apparently incapable of avoiding political controversy, Urban Outfitters has messed up again, this time by spreading misleading information about today’s presidential election.
Stress from the looming US presidential election is all too real. Data from fitness trackers show citizens literally losing sleep, and a recent study from the American Psychological Association found that 52% of adults have suffered some sort of emotional discomfort due to the race, with heightened feelings of ”concern and frustration” most common.
The US, now home to more Spanish speakers than Spain, has a massively expanding Hispanic population.
