They're trading lifetime earnings for speed and less debt. I talked to students betting everything on two-week certifications ...

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Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Katie Miller is a consumer financial services expert. She worked for almost two decades as ...

What if these kids had another option—namely, a traditional college experience, with football games and all the rest, but to study a trade instead of history, business, or anthropology? In some places ...

If you follow education at all, you’ve probably heard that record numbers of young people are ditching traditional college in favor of other routes that cost less time and money. Enrollment at ...

Vince Gregg, principal of Blue Ridge Technical Center in Front Royal, Virginia, says he learned the hard way about the costs of accumulating four years of college debt. Mr. Gregg graduated from the ...

Going to college used to be a defining milestone in the classic American Dream. But as costs rise and returns on investment shrink, many young people are rethinking what “success” looks like and ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — It’s almost 4 p.m. at the Nashville branch of the Tennessee College of Applied Technology, and the students in the auto collision repair night class are just starting their school ...

The Washington College Grant was eliminated for students attending private career and vocational schools. | Opinion ...

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