Career Education (NASDAQ:CECO) is one of today's best performing low-priced stocks, up 7.5% to $2.84 on 1.4x average daily volume. Career Education has traded 979,000 shares thus far today, vs. average volume of 720,000 shares per day. The stock has outperformed the Dow (7.5% to the Dow's 0.6%) and outperformed the S&P 500 (7.5% to the S&P's 0.9%) during today's trading.

Career Education Corporation provides private, for-profit postsecondary education in the United States and Canada. The Company's schools offer a variety of bachelor's degree, associate degree, and non-degree programs, with a core curricula of information technologies, visual communication and design technologies, business studies, and culinary arts.