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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.

The University of La Verne near Los Angeles. The university makes it easier than most private colleges for students to transfer from other institutions.
Posted inCommunity Colleges, Higher Education, News, Solutions, Universities, Inc.

Transfer students start getting more of the credits they’ve already earned

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus April 9, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inElementary to High School

What do at-risk students, English language learners and adult college students have in common?

by Hechinger Report April 9, 2018April 8, 2021
A prisoner's hands inside a punishment cell wing at Angola prison in Louisiana.
Posted inColumnists

A case for educational reparations for the incarcerated

Avatar photo by Andre Perry April 3, 2018April 8, 2021
Allison Dinsmore and her boyfriend, Grant Montgomery, students at California’s Newark Memorial High School. Montgomery says college recruiters seldom come to their school.
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News, Solutions

Silicon Valley aims its tech at helping low-income kids get beyond high school

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus March 29, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, Universities, Inc.

Students, employees scour college finances for waste, proof of unfair pay

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus March 29, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

Will thousands of prison inmates lose access to college?

Avatar photo by Nicole Lewis March 28, 2018April 8, 2021
The new convocation center at Xavier University is seen in New Orleans, Monday, Sept. 2, 2013. Student Landan Moore says Xavier is his dream school.
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, New Orleans, News, The South

A college scholarship meant to help low-income, black students now serves mostly white, middle-class kids

Casey Parks by Casey Parks March 27, 2018April 8, 2021
Vinlisa Khoeum
Posted inHigher Education, Immigration, Map to the Middle Class, Opinion, Student Voices

STUDENT VOICE: Three lessons on beating the odds, from a first-gen college student

Vinlisa Khoeum by Vinlisa Khoeum March 26, 2018April 8, 2021
Student Amalia Lewis-Miller at the Cuyahoga Community College Eastern campus, where a special program helped her finish on time. The program is being eliminated.
Posted inNews

Worried about enrollment and judged on success, some colleges boost support

Avatar photo by Timothy Pratt March 20, 2018April 8, 2021
Cayo Gonzalez
Posted inOpinion

STUDENT VOICE: We must offer underprivileged students more than a meager ‘stay in school’

Cayo Gonzalez by Cayo Gonzalez March 20, 2018April 8, 2021

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