No, it’s not a scam

Alleged predatory practices from a former for-profit college giant.

More scathing revelations about the industry.

It means increased federal scrutiny for the for-profit giant.

What’s next for the embattled industry?

For-profit schools, which target poor students and students of color, are responsible for 46 percent of the nation’s student debt defaults.

And it’s risen by an average of six percent every year for the last five years.

From subprime mortgages to subprime credit cards and now subprime degrees, a small number of people continue to get rich off of black Americans’ aspirations.

Such is life in the world of for-profit higher education.

The for-profit industry is taking in students who’ve been locked out of higher education. What’s the problem with that?

The Golden State is cracking down on for-profit schools, but the move will impact thousands of students.

Students of color are being left little choice but to flock to for-profit schools – a section of the education industry with increasingly lax oversight. Could this be the next subprime crash in the making? Here’s what you had to say.

Private for-profit institutions have been the fastest growing part of the U.S. higher education sector for decades now, but a new Harvard study finds students attending for-profit colleges end up with much higher student-loan debts, are less likely to be employed after graduation and generally earn less than similar students at public or private nonprofit schools.

Meanwhile, student advocates are disappointed that the new rules aren’t stronger.

Susie Cagle makes some jaw-dropping, hard to digest numbers simple.

Student and consumer advocates argue that the rules are necessary to curb the schools’ faulty promises.

Rep. Virginia Foxx leads the GOP effort to block federal regulation of schools that prey on low income students of color.

It’s their latest effort to weaken a proposed federal crackdown.

Schools aren’t happy with newly enforced industry rules. So they’re re-writing them.

School officials try to hang on to their shady practices.