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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.

Karl Rove, left, answers questions from University of Richmond President Ronald A. Crutcher during his talk Thursday night.
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

OPINION: Defending the ‘right to be here’ on campus

by Ronald Crutcher July 10, 2018April 8, 2021
For profit colleges
Posted inFor-Profit Colleges, Higher Education, Opinion

OPINION: Is U.S. higher education headed for ‘Wild West’ tumult?

Avatar photo by F. King Alexander July 9, 2018April 8, 2021
North Carolina's attorney general shut down the Charlotte School of Law before it was scheduled to open this past fall.
Posted inHigher Education, News, Universities, Inc.

As feds pull back, states step in to regulate for-profit colleges and universities

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus July 7, 2018May 24, 2021
race and college admission
Posted inCommunity Colleges, Divided We Learn, Higher Education, News

Facts about race and college admission

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus July 6, 2018April 8, 2021
The line between Texas and Arkansas in front of the bi-state federal building, which straddles both. Texas A&M University at Texarkana has one of the lowest retention rates of public higher-education institutions; 55 percent who started in 2012 were gone by 2016.
Posted inHigher Education, News, Universities, Inc.

More high school grads than ever are going to college, but 1 in 5 will quit

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus July 5, 2018April 8, 2021
Teachers continue their strike at the state capitol on April 9, 2018 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Thousands of teachers and supporters continue to rally at the state Capitol as Oklahoma becomes the latest state to be plagued by teacher strife. Teachers are walking off the job after a $6,100 pay raise was rushed through the Legislature and signed into law by Gov. Mary Fallin.
Posted inColumnists

If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you don’t work over the weekend, thank a union

Avatar photo by Andre Perry July 3, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

College students increasingly caught in remedial education trap

by APM Reports July 2, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inOpinion

OPINION: Loss of top centrist judge will hit higher ed hard

by Harry Litman June 28, 2018April 8, 2021
Ex-slave and American abolitionist Frederick Douglass (Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey) (1817 - 1895) as a young man, 1848. He became the first black man to be received at the White House, by President Abraham Lincoln.
Posted inElementary to High School

Education unfits us for slavery; we need to protect the Department of Education

Avatar photo by Andre Perry June 26, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inCalifornia, Columnists, Divided We Learn, Higher Education, Immigration, News, Proof Points, Race and Equity, The West

Behind the Latino college degree gap

Avatar photo by Jill Barshay June 18, 2018April 8, 2021

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