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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.

Posted inHigher Education, News, Student Veterans

Military veterans decry debt, useless diplomas from for-profit colleges

Karina Hernandez is an intern at The Hechinger Report. She will earn her M.S. in Journalism from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism with a focus on video storytelling and urban reporting in December 2018. Karina might judge you if you tell her you're a cat person. by Karina Hernandez June 7, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inElementary to High School

How Silicon Valley schools are trying to boost lower-income students into high-tech jobs

Avatar photo by Joanne Jacobs June 7, 2018November 23, 2020
Posted inHigher Education

From DACA students to Rhodes Scholars to foster-care youth, a look at some unusual college-goers

by Hechinger Report June 6, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

Liberal arts face uncertain future at nation’s universities

by APM Reports June 4, 2018March 30, 2020
Jacob Maldonado and Maria Campos, friends and DACA recipients, on their graduation day.
Posted inNews

DACA students persevere, enrolling at, remaining in and graduating from college

Avatar photo by Timothy Pratt June 3, 2018April 8, 2021
The statue of Plato in front of the Academy of Athens.
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion, Student Voices

STUDENT VOICE: This toga party’s got nothing to do with fraternities — it’s about the liberal arts

by Catherine Johnson May 31, 2018April 8, 2021
civil rights in education
Posted inElementary to High School

OPINION: Did Betsy DeVos just suggest that schools roll back students’ civil rights?

Avatar photo by Catherine E. Lhamon May 29, 2018April 8, 2021
Lack of sufficient financial aid has forced Jocelyn Ramirez to work more than 40 hours a week and cut down on coursework so she can afford to stay in college.
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, Map to the Middle Class, News, Race and Equity

Eligible for financial aid, nearly a million students never get it

Avatar photo by Meredith Kolodner May 23, 2018November 14, 2024
AI in education
Posted inColumnists

Has video killed the red grading pen?

Avatar photo by Daisy Yuhas May 23, 2018March 30, 2020
Posted inOpinion

OPINION: Technology, stupor and the future of liberal arts colleges

Jeff Frank by Jeff Frank May 22, 2018April 8, 2021

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