Have America’s public schools gotten worse over time? Americans seem to think so. Every time I write about why attending college is so crucial for moving up the income ladder — or, these days ...

Catherine Rampell is a columnist for the Washington Post. Her email address is [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter, @crampell.

First rung on ladder requires a B.A.The report is from Burning Glass, a labor market analytics company that mines millions of online job postings. The company found that a wide range of jobs ...

President Donald Trump is obsessed with trade surpluses. In his zero-sum view of the world, if we don’t sell more than we buy in a given industry, we must be losing.

Catherine Rampell says it's a myth that education is failing our country; compared to earlier 'golden ages,' more students are going to college. By Catherine RampellSep 20, 2014 ...

Think grade inflation has made grades less meaningful? A consortium of 100 elite prep schools agrees. But rather than impose stricter grading curves, these schools plan to eliminate grades ...

Sam Tarantino, who dropped out of college and started his own company, Grooveshark, and New York Times economics reporter Catherine Rampell stopped by "The Early Show" Wednesday to talk about the ...

College enrollment is dropping again — and that’s a bad thing. A Labor Department report released this week finds that the share of young people enrolled in college by the October after they ...

Why is it that women are better educated but less compensated than men?

The institutions that theoretically stand to benefit most from free college live in an entirely different political reality than the 2020 Democratic candidates pushing for it.

<b>Tempe, Ariz.</b> • More than ever, higher education has become critical to snagging a stable job, moving up the income ladder and succeeding in the global economy.

Heckman's work suggests that a dollar spent on high-quality early-childhood education programs produces a higher return on investment than does almost any major alternative.