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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 inElementary to High School

Following the lessons of learning science in schools isn’t convenient

Avatar photo by Tara García Mathewson February 7, 2018April 8, 2021
Arizona State University, whose president says it has become a model of how higher education can solve many of its problems.
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

OPINION: Changing the ‘narrow and sometimes elitist image of higher education’

Avatar photo by Rich Nickel February 6, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inNews

These colleges turn low-income students into middle-class earners — but how?

Avatar photo by Jill Barshay February 5, 2018April 8, 2021
student parents
Posted inCommunity Colleges, Divided We Learn, Higher Education, News, Race and Equity

A program helps low-income parents graduate at twice the rate of other community college students

Avatar photo by Meredith Kolodner February 5, 2018April 8, 2021
Carter G. Woodson in an undated photograph. In 1926, he originated the celebration of Black History Week and is the author of 16 books about African Americans.
Posted inColumnists

When black history isn’t relegated to a single month

Avatar photo by Andre Perry January 30, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inOpinion

OPINION: Business schools’ new artsy edge

Roland Siegers by Roland Siegers January 30, 2018April 8, 2021
A new report says the state of Mississippi does not do enough to regulate for-profit colleges.
Posted inHigher Education, News, Universities, Inc.

New report gives Mississippi an F in regulatory oversight of for-profit colleges

Avatar photo by Jackie Mader January 30, 2018April 8, 2021
Even though more than half of Mississippi’s public high school graduates in 2015 were African American, they only made up 10 percent of that fall’s freshman class at the University of Mississippi.
Posted inHigher Education

Disparities at state flagships

by Hechinger Report January 29, 2018January 11, 2022
Even though more than half of Mississippi’s public high school graduates in 2015 were African American, they only made up 10 percent of that fall’s freshman class at the University of Mississippi.
Posted inNews

Many state flagship universities leave black and Latino students behind

Avatar photo by Meredith Kolodner January 29, 2018April 8, 2021
Andrea Laminack, a female welder, talks to Nikki Bond, a prospective student, at an open house at West Georgia Technical College for women interested in vocational trades.
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News

In spite of a growing shortage in male-dominated vocations, women still aren’t showing up

by Kelly Field January 26, 2018April 8, 2021

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