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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.

Ian Bickford
Posted inElementary to High School

OPINION: The college prep that’s worse than neutral? High school

Ian Bickford by Ian Bickford December 27, 2017April 8, 2021
Kathleen Savio
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

OPINION: Educating adult learners for adversity with apprenticeships in insurance

Kathleen Savio by Kathleen Savio December 25, 2017April 8, 2021
Kevin Fortunato
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion, Student Voices

STUDENT VOICE: How one youth with a disability discovered he was so much more than that

Kevin Fortunato by Kevin Fortunato December 21, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

University enrollment decline continues into sixth straight year

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus December 20, 2017April 8, 2021
Cal students at UC Berkeley on Friday, April 10, 2015.
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

OPINION: Here’s a reason to help more students earn college degrees — adaptability

John Bravman by John Bravman December 19, 2017April 8, 2021
Republican Senatorial candidate Roy Moore waits to be introduced to speak about the race against his Democratic opponent Doug on December 12, 2017 in Montgomery, Alabama.
Posted inNews

#YouToo? What educators need to learn from the Roy Moore election in Alabama

Avatar photo by Andre Perry December 19, 2017April 8, 2021
Microsoft employees in Redmond, Washington. With a huge shortage of college graduates in data and computer science, tech companies are taking matters into their own hands and providing education directly to prospective tech workers.
Posted inFuture of Learning, Higher Education, News, Solutions

Impatient with universities’ slow pace of change, employers go around them

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus December 18, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inNews

Can sadness be good for reading?

Avatar photo by Jill Barshay December 18, 2017April 8, 2021
A karate match like this one illustrates many of the tenets of personalized learning.
Posted inFuture of Learning, Higher Education, Opinion

OPINION: Karate teaches us when to set the bar higher for students

Chris Rush by Chris Rush December 18, 2017April 8, 2021
“I had moments last semester when I didn’t want to study anymore. I thought: I’ll just work my job and get paid, and that’s it,” said Zuleima Dominguez, a student at Hunter College.
Posted inHigher Education, Immigration, News

Undocumented high schoolers work long hours, putting college further out of reach

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Sarah Gonser and Meredith Kolodner December 15, 2017April 8, 2021

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