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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.

Tristan Wright-Crishon works in a music technology lab at Queensborough Community College.
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

OPINION: The new lifelong learner — an education to match America’s economic needs

Mark Dorman by Mark Dorman December 14, 2017April 8, 2021
Latino students at Loyola Marymount University in California have an enviable 80 percent graduation rate, compared with 77 percent for white students.
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News

New research shows Latinos closing the racial gap on college degrees, but still lagging far behind whites

Avatar photo by Meredith Kolodner December 14, 2017April 8, 2021
remedial high school
Posted inCommunity Colleges, Divided We Learn, Higher Education, News, Race and Equity

The community college “segregation machine”

Avatar photoAvatar photoAvatar photo by Meredith Kolodner, Brad Racino and Brandon Quester December 13, 2017April 8, 2021
The United States Capitol.
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

OPINION: Is this tax plan a dream-crusher for higher ed’s food service workers, maintenance staff and housekeepers?

Avatar photo by Julie E. Wollman December 12, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News

In an era of inequity, more and more college financial aid is going to the rich

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus December 7, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inElementary to High School

OPINION: Want to help college students with special needs to succeed? First, stop saying ‘disadvantage’

Avatar photo by Peter Eden December 7, 2017April 8, 2021
City Year volunteer Shawn Wiyninger greets a student at Webster High School.
Posted inElementary to High School

How a dropout factory raised its graduation rate from 53 percent to 75 percent in three years

Amadou Diallo is a journalist, playwright and photographer whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, Wirecutter, The Atlantic, Al Jazeera America and The Christian Science Monitor. He has been a regular contributor to The Hechinger Report since 2017. A former musician and composer, he is a graduate of New York University and is always happy to weigh in on just which of Miles Davis’ classic quintets was the best. by Amadou Diallo December 5, 2017April 8, 2021
In 2015 and 2016, 3.9 million college students dropped out of college with debt, Jill Barshay wrote in The Hechinger Report. Data from College Scorecard of the U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics.
Posted inFor-Profit Colleges, Higher Education, Opinion, Universities, Inc.

OPINION: Can ‘risk-share’ financial aid models reverse some ‘alarming data’ on student completion rates?

by Brian W. Jones December 5, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inCommunity Colleges, Higher Education, News, Rural Education, Universities, Inc.

Rural students are the least likely to go to college

by APM Reports December 4, 2017February 9, 2022
Posted inElementary to High School, High School Reform, Higher Education, Opinion, Student Voices

STUDENT VOICE: My life in high school in one word? Struggle

Avatar photo by Edison Estes December 4, 2017April 8, 2021

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