12-Hour Rule, Viewed as Limiting Distance Education, Expires

By DAN CARNEVALE

Washington

The 12-hour rule is dead. The U.S. Department of Education this month issued a final regulation in the Federal Register to kill a once-obscure financial-aid restriction that had become a source of repeated complaints. Distance-education providers have been calling loudly for the rule's demise for several years, arguing that it prevented...

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