"Here in America, we don't guarantee equal outcomes ... but we do expect that everybody gets an equal shot," Obama said.
Americans took to social media to criticize the lack of details in Obama's plan, which news outlets estimated could cost $15 billion.
The tests differ in topics tested, length, scoring metrics and design.
The unnamed woman's lawsuit alleges that the school failed to investigate her claims, and failed to protect her after they became public.
About 2 million students who would have qualified for Pell Grants didn't file the FAFSA in 2011-2012. About 9 percent of them said it was too much work.
The national deadline for filling out the FAFSA is June 30, 2016, but states and colleges have individual deadlines.
Harvard College for undergraduates remains under investigation by the Department of Education for Title IX violations.
The government will look at 11 factors, including how many students get Pell Grants and how many are the first in their families to go to college.
The schools that ranked the lowest were DePaul University, the University of California - Santa Cruz and Richard Stockton College.
Despite a decline in drug use, the uptick in electronic cigarette consumption among youth worries doctors.
The year-end spending bill curtails healthy school lunch restrictions on grain products and salty food.
The Rolling Stone article raised awareness about college rape culture, but the aftermath reinforced it.
Columbia University law school students can apply to have their final exams postponed after the Ferguson and Staten Island grand jury decisions.
China says its Confucius Institutes promote cultural exchange, but critics say that they promote the political aims of China's rulers.
The university said Wednesday that it now believes the missing brains were destroyed in 2002, after being found to be in poor condition.
The University of Mosul was Iraq's second-largest academic institution. Now it's something totally different.
Jobs for recent college graduates are mostly in education, medicine and accounting.
A faction of the university's board has repeatedly questioned the validity of a report blaming officials for covering up child sex abuse.
University of Virginia sophomore Hannah Graham died from homicidal violence, investigators confirmed Tuesday.
Monday night 'RAW' will feature Grumpy Cat while everyone figures out who will compete in Sunday's pay-per-view event.
About 289,000 U.S. students attended school and received credit in foreign countries during the 2012-13 school year.
When international students come to the United States for higher education, most head for New York or Los Angeles.
As college gets more expensive and the economy bounces back, students are taking out fewer loans.
A new report released Thursday found that attending a public four-year school cost more than three times as much as it did 30 years ago.
Two schools received bomb threats last week through anonymous social media app Yik Yak, falling in line with a larger trend.
The colleges are suing the government over a newly announced "gainful employment" rule that aims to help with student debt.
Harvard secretly photographed 2,000 students for a research project, causing outrage. The issue of privacy now extends to higher education.
The U.S. Department of Education found the university in violation of Title IX for failing to quickly respond to complaints of sexual assault, but the school won't be disciplined.
Brock University decided not to discipline four students who won an on-campus Halloween costume contest while wearing blackface, but its president spoke out against the incident.
Last year, more than 300,000 international students took the SAT outside of the U.S.