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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.

Former Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has a new book How Schools Work: An Inside Account
Posted inEarly Education, Elementary to High School, Higher Education, Opinion, Race and Equity

OPINION: Arne Duncan, the fallible narrator

Avatar photo by Aaron Pallas August 13, 2018April 8, 2021
Demonstrators carry confederate and Nazi flags during the Unite the Right free speech rally at Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA on August 12, 2017.
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion, Race and Equity, Teacher Preparation

OPINION: What white students still need to understand about white supremacy, a year after Charlottesville

Jennifer Rich by Jennifer Rich August 13, 2018April 8, 2021
stem majors
Posted inNews

Too little aid for low-income STEM majors?

Delece Smith-Barrow by Delece Smith-Barrow August 10, 2018April 8, 2021
At least four colleges and universities in the Midwest alone have added certificate or associate degree programs in beer fermentation, brewing, brew management and wine and viticulture technology, among the 41,446 degree or certificate programs colleges and universities have added since 2012.
Posted inHigher Education, News, Universities, Inc.

Panicked universities in search of students are adding thousands of new majors

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus August 9, 2018April 8, 2021
MAFRAQ (JORDAN), April 26, 2018 — Syrian refugee children at a settlement near the Jordan-Syria border.
Posted inHigher Education, Immigration, Opinion, Student Voices

STUDENT VOICE: ‘Then one day a bomb exploded during my geometry class’

Yara Al Maouni by Yara Al Mazouni August 7, 2018April 8, 2021
Jackie Brenner, 18, practicing yoga in the yard of a family friend’s home in Bryn Mawr, Pa., in July. Through her nonprofit, Piece of Peace, she teaches others how to live healthy lives.
Posted inNews

Back to school ideas for preschool thru college — and teachers too

by Hechinger Report August 6, 2018April 8, 2021
Student borrowers
Posted inHigher Education, News

Would proposed borrower-defense rules help or harm indebted students?

Delece Smith-Barrow by Delece Smith-Barrow August 3, 2018April 8, 2021
Roosevelt Montás, who spoke no English when he arrived in New York City from the Dominican Republic at age 12, leads Columbia University’s Freedom and Citizenship summer program for New York high school students.
Posted inNews

Reading, writing and arguing: Can a summer of big questions push students to college?

by Matt Krupnick August 1, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inColumnists

Clusters of black science majors offer a map for future investment

Avatar photo by Andre Perry July 31, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

With the new ‘Aim Higher Act,’ House Democrats want states to make community college free

Delece Smith-Barrow by Delece Smith-Barrow July 27, 2018April 8, 2021

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