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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.

Hurricanes Irma and Maria ravaged the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, located in the capital of San Juan, among other colleges. Students are faced with hard decisions about where to study.
Posted inColumnists

Higher education must stand up for Puerto Rico

Avatar photo by Andre Perry, Lisette Nieves and Yolanda Gallegos October 2, 2017April 8, 2021
When Dustin Gordon arrived at the University of Iowa, he found himself taking lecture classes with more people in them than his entire hometown of Sharpsburg, Iowa, population 89.
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News, Race and Equity, Rural Education

The high school grads least likely in America to go to college? Rural ones

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus and Matt Krupnick September 27, 2017February 9, 2022
Posted inColumnists

How legalizing marijuana could hurt student achievement

Avatar photo by Claudia Wallis September 27, 2017April 8, 2021
First-generation students at University of California, Davis.
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, Opinion, Race and Equity

OPINION: UC Davis to first-gen students: “You belong here”

Carolyn Thomas by Carolyn Thomas September 26, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, Solutions, Universities, Inc.

How one college’s death and rebirth offers lessons for the rest

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus September 26, 2017April 8, 2021
The Miami Dolphins during the National Anthem on September 24, 2017 in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
Posted inColumnists

Black athletes can teach us about more than just sports

Avatar photo by Andre Perry September 25, 2017April 8, 2021
Students make use of tablets and technology while working in small groups.
Posted inNews

Three lessons from rigorous research on education technology

Avatar photo by Jill Barshay September 25, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News, Solutions

How to save the humanities? Make them a requirement toward a business degree

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus September 20, 2017April 8, 2021
student parents
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News

Number of single moms in college doubled in 12 years, so why aren’t they graduating?

Avatar photo by Meredith Kolodner September 20, 2017April 8, 2021
Josh Caouette, a graduate student at Simmons College, crams for a test. Caouette is resigned to the cost of his degree. “If it’s helping others, that’s fine by me. I mean, I have to do it either way.”
Posted inGraduate Students, Higher Education, News, Solutions, Universities, Inc.

In-demand graduate programs become a cash cow for colleges in financial distress

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus September 19, 2017April 8, 2021

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