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Covering Innovation & Inequality in Education

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Higher Education

Even as policymakers push to increase the proportion of Americans with degrees, university and college students and their families contend with ever-rising costs and debt, low success rates, and growing concern about equal access to a higher education. We cover the causes of these problems, and the innovations being tried to solve them.

What do college students learn
Posted inHigher Education, News, Solutions

As students return to college, a basic question persists: What are they learning?

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus September 17, 2018April 8, 2021
Academia is beginning to offer courses in blockchain technology. Po Chi Wu, a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, teaches a course about blockchain entrepreneurship.
Posted inElementary to High School, Higher Education, Map to the Middle Class, News

Blockchain arrives on college campuses

Avatar photo by Sarah Gonser September 17, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News, Race and Equity

One solution for boosting Latino graduation rates

Delece Smith-Barrow by Delece Smith-Barrow September 14, 2018April 8, 2021
May 2, 2018, Washington D.C. — Education Secretary Betsy Devos at the Teacher of the Year ceremony at the White House.
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

OPINION: Betsy DeVos’ slippery slope of religion, ethnicity and race

Jennifer Rich by Jennifer Rich September 13, 2018April 8, 2021
Keith Murphy, recovery counselor, and Lisa Laitman, director of the Alcohol and Other Drug Assistance Program, speaking with a resident of the Rutgers University Recovery House.
Posted inHigher Education, News

A new challenge for colleges: opioid-addicted students

by Kelly Field September 13, 2018April 8, 2021
The Capitol Building in Jackson Mississippi.
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

OPINION: Here’s a novel way to keep students in college: good teaching

Charles McAdams by Charles McAdams September 13, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

OPINION: ‘Our student loan policy has been corrupted by the powerful companies that profit from it’

Julie Margetta Morgan by Julie Margetta Morgan September 11, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inNews

College students predicted to fall by more than 15% after the year 2025

Avatar photo by Jill Barshay September 10, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, Immigration, Opinion, Student Voices

STUDENT VOICE: The first in my family to go to college, thanks to a scholarship — and a borrowed van

Jenny Rodriguez by Jenny Rodriguez September 10, 2018April 8, 2021
Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., speaks at the 2018 California Democrats State Convention. She recently said many politicians who are considered good legislators help for-profit colleges.
Posted inHigher Education, News

Maxine Waters chastises for-profit colleges and DeVos Leadership

Delece Smith-Barrow by Delece Smith-Barrow September 7, 2018April 8, 2021

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