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The for-profit education industry has grown rapidly for the past decade on the backs of the most vulnerable members of society. But now, with the Education Department on track to clamp down on abuses, and the Senate planning hearings, it looks like the party may be ending.

Since George W. Bush gutted regulations on the for-profit education industry, it has reaped huge profit growth, while appalling percentages of its students drop out with no degrees and big debts. Reregulation could lead those profits to plummet.

In their new book "Crossing the Finish Line," former Princeton University President William Bowen and former Macalster College President Michael McPherson look at the high college dropout rate that is plaguing higher education in America -- and explore some possible remedies.They also have some...

During my lifetime video games have transformed from simple games mastered with a single joystick to a graphically intense activity for men and women of all ages, bordering national past-time status. It should come as no surprise that during this rise popularity and growth an organization would...