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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.

Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

OPINION: On active-military duty and earning a college degree

Niccole Kopit by Niccole Kopit January 9, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inColumnists, Elementary to High School, Future of Learning, Higher Education, News, Proof Points

Counting your way to a college A

Avatar photo by Jill Barshay January 8, 2018April 8, 2021
Dorchester, Mass. teen Shayna Morales Soto works with local children in Yalcobá, a Mayan village in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula.
Posted inElementary to High School

STUDENT VOICE: A Mayan village helps prepare an urban teen for college

Avatar photo by Shayna Morales Soto January 8, 2018April 8, 2021
Olympic hopeful figure skater Max Aaron on the practice rink in Colorado Springs. Aaron, who is 25, earned a degree in finance in December. He worked as a barback and a waiter on the weekends to help pay the tuition and took his classes early in the morning and late at night to accommodate his training schedule.
Posted inCommunity Colleges, Higher Education, News, Solutions

Even with help, Olympic athletes struggle to balance their sports with college

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus January 4, 2018April 8, 2021
Junior Alex DesRuisseaux and senior Jesus Garcia work in the library of the University of Maine at Presque Isle.
Posted inFuture of Learning, Higher Education, News, Rural Education, Solutions

In rural Maine, a university eliminates most Fs in an effort to increase graduation rates

Avatar photo by Robbie Feinberg January 3, 2018February 9, 2022
Posted inElementary to High School, Future of Learning, High School Reform, Higher Education

Modern apprenticeships offer path to career — and college

Avatar photo by Tara García Mathewson January 3, 2018April 8, 2021
Michael Lawrence Collins
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

OPINION: Is college worth it? Students can learn to calculate the payoff

Michael Lawrence Collins by Michael Lawrence Collins January 2, 2018April 8, 2021
Rhodes College’s Daughdrill Tower.
Posted inElementary to High School

OPINION: College students are wrong to drop music class

Mona Kreitner by Mona Kreitner January 1, 2018April 8, 2021
The reading room of the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.
Posted inElementary to High School

OPINION: When it comes to educational research, getting there is half the battle

Avatar photo by Christopher T. Cross December 29, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion, Student Voices

STUDENT VOICE: As a person with autism, I spend lots of time studying, attending class — and explaining that I am not deaf

Avatar photo by Jordyn Zimmerman December 28, 2017April 8, 2021

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