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Education Secretary Miguel Cardona speaks at an event where Vice President Kamala Harris announced the cancelation of all federal student loans borrowed by students to attend any Corinthian Colleges, Thursday, June 2, 2022, at the Department of Education in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Settlement would forgive $6B for defrauded college students
By COLLIN BINKLEY - AP Education Writer
Thu,06/23/22-3:31PM , 215 Reads
The Biden administration has agreed to cancel $6 billion in student loans for about 200,000 former students who say they were defrauded by their colleges, according to a proposed settlement in a Trump-era lawsuit.
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Tennis legend and equality rights advocate Billie Jean King, speaks at a Women's History Month event honoring women athletes in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Title IX, March 9, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. As the nation celebrates the 50th anniversary of Title IX, a new poll finds Americans are split on how much progress has come from the landmark women's rights law. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

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Men, women split on equity gains since Title IX, poll shows
By COLLIN BINKLEY - Associated Press
Tue,06/14/22-11:22PM , 215 Reads
Ask a man about gender equality, and you’re likely to hear the U.S. has made great strides in the 50 years since the landmark anti-discrimination law Title IX was passed. Ask a woman, and the answer probably will be quite different.
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Education Secretary Miguel Cardona speaks during the 2022 National and State Teachers of the Year event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, April 27, 2022. The Biden administration says it will forgive all remaining federal student debt for former students of the for-profit Corinthian Colleges chain. “As of today, every student deceived, defrauded and driven into debt by Corinthian Colleges can rest assured that the Biden-Harris Administration has their back and will discharge their federal student loans,” Cardona said. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

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Former Corinthian students get federal student debt erased
By COLLIN BINKLEY - AP Education Writer
Wed,06/01/22-5:41PM , 183 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of students who attended the for-profit Corinthian Colleges chain will automatically get their federal student loans canceled, the Biden administration announced Wednesday, a move that aims to bring closure to one of the most notorious cases of fraud in American higher education.
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A tour group walks through the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 30, 2012. Harvard University is vowing to spend $100 million dollars to research and atone for its extensive ties with slavery, the school's president announced Tuesday, April 26, 2022, with plans to identify and support direct descendants of dozens of enslaved people who labored at the Ivy League campus. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

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Harvard pledges $100M to research, atone for role in slavery
By COLLIN BINKLEY - AP Education Writer
Tue,04/26/22-11:52AM , 112 Reads
BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University is vowing to spend $100 million to study and atone for its extensive ties with slavery, the school’s president announced Tuesday, with plans to identify and support the descendants of enslaved people who labored at the Ivy League campus.
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