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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.

Grinnell College, halfway between Des Moines and Iowa City. First-year students here attend a mandatory career advising program before their classes even start.
Posted inHigher Education, News, Solutions

Colleges welcome first-year students by getting them thinking about jobs

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus September 6, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News, Solutions

Old Idea, New Economy: Rediscovering Apprenticeships

by APM Reports September 5, 2018April 8, 2021
Jun 22, 2009 - New York, New York, USA —- Graduates at the 81st Commencement Ceremony for the Bronx High School of Science at Lincoln Center in Manhattan.
Posted inOpinion

OPINION: Asian, black and Latino solidarity should come first

Roseanne Liu by Roseann Liu September 5, 2018April 8, 2021
college job
Posted inHigher Education, News

Quantifying the risks of working while in college

Delece Smith-Barrow by Delece Smith-Barrow August 31, 2018April 8, 2021
Tuition is being cut by about $25,000 this year to attract more students to Mills College in Oakland, California, one of several colleges and universities freezing or reducing tuition this fall in the face of an enrollment decline and consumer backlash.
Posted inHigher Education, News, Solutions, Universities, Inc.

Bending to the law of supply and demand, some colleges are dropping their prices

by Matt Krupnick August 30, 2018April 8, 2021
technical education
Posted inOpinion

OPINION: College or technical ed? Here’s why students need both

Avatar photo by Anthony Benoit August 30, 2018April 8, 2021
Katy Sorto, photographed at her home in August 2018.
Posted inCommunity Colleges, Divided We Learn, Higher Education, News

Nine years to earn a degree: Was it worth it?

by Emily Hanford August 28, 2018April 8, 2021
Mario Martinez, photographed in August 2018.
Posted inNews

After an arrest for suspected gang activity, a young man bets on college

by Emily Hanford August 28, 2018April 27, 2021
for-profit rules
Posted inFor-Profit Colleges, Higher Education, Opinion

OPINION: U.S. higher education at risk as DeVos moves to ax for-profit rules

Avatar photo by David Steele-Figueredo August 28, 2018April 8, 2021
Textbook prices
Posted inColumnists

Nothing says welcome to college like exorbitant textbook prices

Avatar photo by Andre Perry August 28, 2018April 8, 2021

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