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The Hechinger Report

Covering Innovation & Inequality in Education

Category: Divided We Learn

Once the way up the socioeconomic ladder in America, higher education may now be deepening the divisions. First-generation, low-income students disproportionately wind up at campuses with the fewest resources; their wealthier counterparts, at the best. And, contradicting public promises, universities are raising their net prices faster for low-income than higher-income students.

Posted inElementary to High School

The children of children who went to desegregated schools reap benefits, too, study finds

by Jill Barshay May 23, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News

What happens when a college recruits black students others consider too risky?

by Meredith Kolodner May 19, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inNews

Designing ways to move beyond diversity

by Kathleen Lucadamo May 19, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inNews

How first-generation students are helping each other through college

by Lillian Mongeau May 18, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inEducation by the Numbers

Data show segregation by income (not race) is what’s getting worse in schools

by Jill Barshay May 9, 2016March 30, 2020
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News

British universities reach out to the new minority: poor white males

by Jon Marcus May 2, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, Opinion

How Carolina scrapped loans for top students in need — and became a policy leader

by Edward B. Fiske April 12, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, Opinion

Are these the real heroes stepping up to get college knowledge to students who want and need it?

by Daniel Porterfield March 29, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News

Why are many students with ‘A’ averages being barred from college-level classes?

by Meredith Kolodner February 23, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News

Outdated Pell rules may discriminate against low-income students

by Meredith Kolodner February 16, 2016April 8, 2021

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