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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, Universities, Inc.

OPINION: When it comes to the job market, these higher ed practices give business students an edge (hint: they include the liberal arts)

Avatar photo by Gloria Cordes Larson September 19, 2017April 8, 2021
Juan Belman, age 24, 2017 graduate of University of Texas at Austin.
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, Immigration, News, Student Voices

STUDENT VOICES: DACA students worry about ‘really tough times’ ahead

Avatar photo by Sarah Gonser September 14, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

OPINION: Misguided payment policies that fuel the college-dropout trap

Avatar photo by Ernest Ezeugo September 12, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inProof Points

Counting DACA students

Avatar photo by Jill Barshay September 11, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

OPINION: It’s time to admit that Georgia is in the crux of a college financial aid crisis

Avatar photo by Jessica D. Johnson September 6, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inNews

How slavery helped build many U.S. colleges and universities

by APM Reports September 5, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inProof Points

Wasted time and money on undergraduate classes

Avatar photo by Jill Barshay September 4, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News, Solutions

Century-old ‘work college’ model regains popularity as student debt continues to increase

Avatar photo by Timothy Pratt September 2, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News

Nonwhite students slow to seek mental health counseling for which they’re more in need

by Alina Tugend August 31, 2017April 8, 2021
mississippi school closings
Posted inElementary to High School, Higher Education, Opinion

READERS REACT: “I made it” through college despite “working, dressing poorly, bad shoes, etc.”

by Hechinger Report August 30, 2017April 8, 2021

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