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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 inNews

Chart: How much university endowments rose in 2017

by Hechinger Report January 26, 2018April 8, 2021
Tiana Young is a freshman at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where a racist Facebook post from a student in the alt-right group Turning Point left the African-American community shaken and frustrated by the school's lack of public response.
Posted inDivided We Learn, High School Reform, Higher Education, News, Race and Equity, Solutions

To attract more blacks and Hispanics to STEM, universities must address racial issues on campus

by Stuart Miller January 23, 2018April 8, 2021
Grambling State University President Richard Gallot, Jr. (pictured right) rides in the homecoming parade in Grambling, LA with his wife Christy Gallot and sons.
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion, Race and Equity

OPINION: Efforts to discourage black colleges’ growth would harm underserved economies

Avatar photo by Larry Walker January 23, 2018April 8, 2021
The Founder's Library at Howard University in Washington, DC.
Posted inColumnists

If black lives matter, so do historically black colleges and universities

Avatar photo by Andre Perry January 23, 2018April 8, 2021
Students in a marketing course at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island check their phones before class begins. To tame classroom distraction, their professor uses Flipd, an app that locks students out of their phones during class.
Posted inElementary to High School

Dealing with digital distraction

Chris Berdik by Chris Berdik January 22, 2018April 8, 2021
The “Great Dome” on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which is hosting an experimental program to recruit physicists, engineers, chemists, linguists, biologists, neuroscientists and other experts and train them to be primary and secondary school teachers. The candidates’ previous experience and skills will help speed them through the process.
Posted inNews

New, MIT-based program proposes transforming physicists, engineers into teachers

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus January 18, 2018April 8, 2021
A girl at recess runs at the Heart Butte School on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in northern Montana. Overshadowed by attention to the challenges faced by nonwhite high school graduates in cities, low-income black, Hispanic and native American students in rural areas are equally unlikely to go on to college.
Posted inNews

Economics, culture and distance conspire to keep rural nonwhites from higher educations

by Matt Krupnick January 18, 2018February 9, 2022
Posted inHigher Education, News, Universities, Inc.

LISTEN: Why most single moms in college don’t finish

by APM Reports January 16, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

OPINION: In higher ed, lower enrollment isn’t the only sign of trouble

Avatar photo by David Steele-Figueredo January 16, 2018April 8, 2021
In this file photo, a high school student at a Mississippi school works on a math assignment.
Posted inElementary to High School

Most Americans say U.S. STEM education is middling, new poll finds

Avatar photo by Caroline Preston January 9, 2018April 8, 2021

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