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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.

Client Paul Chirico of Los Angeles works with tax preparer Erika Arbulante to see how the Affordable Care Act, ACA, will impact his tax returns at H&R Block on January 8, 2015 in Los Angeles, California.
Posted inElementary to High School

Apprenticeships could provide a path to the middle class for millions of workers, new study says

Avatar photo by Caroline Preston November 29, 2017March 30, 2020
Posted inOpinion

OPINION: Fearful that they will be seen as ‘lazy’ or ‘unintelligent,’ most college students with disabilities don’t seek accommodation

Avatar photo by Mimi Corcoran November 28, 2017March 30, 2020
Members of the BizTech Challenge winning team (from left to right): Rashad Pierre, senior, business management major; Nathan Morrison, senior, mechanical engineering and supply chain management; Ashley Lewis, sophomore, electrical engineering; and Polite Stewart, Jr., senior, mechanical engineering and physics.
Posted inColumnists

When a dollar and a dream isn’t enough

Avatar photo by Andre Perry November 28, 2017April 8, 2021
Great Hall, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Posted inOpinion

OPINION: Five reasons colleges can enroll more low-income students

Avatar photo by Daniel Porterfield November 21, 2017April 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 inColumnists

Black colleges can revive American cities

Avatar photo by Andre Perry November 20, 2017April 8, 2021
The Pi Kappa Phi fraternity house is seen near Florida State University in Tallahassee, Fla. University President John Thrasher announced the indefinite suspension of the school’s 55 fraternities and sororities following the death of a freshman pledge. Andrew Coffey, a pledge at Pi Kappa Phi, died Friday after he was found unresponsive following a party.
Posted inHigher Education, News

Are hazing, sexual assault, drinking and unabashed racism inevitable on campus?

Avatar photo by Liz Willen November 15, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inAndre Perry

It’s time our educational institutions instilled some civic-minded values in students

Avatar photo by Andre Perry November 14, 2017October 29, 2024
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, Opinion, Universities, Inc.

OPINION: Research confirms an urgent need to improve how students are supported when choosing college majors

William HansenAvatar photo by William Hansen and Johnny C. Taylor Jr. November 13, 2017April 8, 2021
Washington, D.C. – West Front Plaza and façade of the U.S. Supreme court building.
Posted inHigh School Reform, Higher Education, Opinion

OPINION: How one Colorado boy with autism schooled the Supreme Court on public education for the disabled

Avatar photo by Mark Paige November 9, 2017April 8, 2021
San Quentin inmate Anthony Anderson holds the essay he wrote, addressing future students in the program's English classes. "Take pride in getting an education," he wrote. "You will have something to offer to society. Who knows you may be the next big thing in literature."
Posted inHigher Education, News, Race and Equity

What does college look like in prison?

by APM Reports November 6, 2017April 8, 2021

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