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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.

Dominic, 3 and Zaire, 2, play while their moms take part in a conversation about bullying at a Family Scholar House Café Night.
Posted inCommunity Colleges, Divided We Learn, Higher Education, News, Race and Equity, Solutions

These formerly homeless single moms beat the odds and are now college grads

Avatar photo by Meredith Kolodner April 22, 2018April 8, 2021
One of the advertisements produced by the “You Can. Go Back” campaign in Indiana, among the several states trying to get college dropouts to finish their college educations.
Posted inHigher Education, News

States use direct mail, money, to get more of their residents back to college

by Kelly Field April 18, 2018April 8, 2021
The United States Capitol. A House bill to revamp the Higher Education Act has moved out of committee for debate, while the Senate is still discussing reform ideas in committee.
Posted inOpinion

OPINION: To succeed in tomorrow’s workforce, today’s students need equity-driven policy

Jose Luis CruzMichelle Asha Cooper by José Luis Cruz and Michelle Asha Cooper April 17, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inNews

For-profit colleges lose when two-year colleges offer B.A. degrees

Avatar photo by Jill Barshay April 16, 2018April 8, 2021
Sarat Atobajeun started as an apprentice with Zurich Insurance last August. She said she appreciates the stability of the job and the diversity of the tasks she’s learning.
Posted inNews

Are apprenticeships the new on-ramp to good jobs?

Avatar photo by Caroline Preston April 15, 2018April 8, 2021
Wind turbines on private working ranch land near Kevin, Montana.
Posted inNews

Workers are climbing wind turbines to the middle class

Avatar photo by Sarah Garland April 14, 2018April 8, 2021
Flint, Michigan — The water tower of the Flint Water Treatment plant.
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

OPINION: College chemistry class finds clarity in Flint water crisis

Ursula Williams by Ursula Williams April 10, 2018April 8, 2021
Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi. The state’s public universities now rely more on tuition than appropriations for funding.
Posted inHigher Education, Mississippi, News, The South

Report: Universities relying more on tuition than state and local money

Avatar photo by Jackie Mader April 10, 2018April 8, 2021
Roseanne Barr arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of "Roseanne" on Friday, March 23, 2018 in Burbank, Calif.
Posted inColumnists

The empress’s new clothes

Avatar photo by Andre Perry April 10, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News, Rural Education

Even if they want to go to college, millions of adults live in higher education “deserts”

by Matt Krupnick April 9, 2018April 8, 2021

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