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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 inColumnists

Faced with the domestic terrorism at Charlottesville, Betsy DeVos fails another test

Avatar photo by Andre Perry August 14, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News, Race and Equity

Pathways to jobs of the future opening via summer STEM programs

by Teranderose Russell August 11, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

DEBT WITHOUT DEGREE: State cuts money to higher education while student costs skyrocket

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Sarah Butrymowicz and Meredith Kolodner August 11, 2017May 2, 2022
Posted inHigher Education, News

DEBT WITHOUT DEGREE: The human cost of college debt that becomes ‘purgatory’

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Meredith Kolodner and Sarah Butrymowicz August 10, 2017May 2, 2022
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, Opinion, Race and Equity

OPINION: Trump’s Justice Dept. “would better serve students by focusing on legitimate threats to students’ civil rights”

Avatar photo by Neal H. Hutchens August 9, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inNews

The new minority on campus? Men

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus August 8, 2017August 25, 2021
Posted inAndre Perry, Columnists, Higher Education, Race and Equity, Universities, Inc.

America has never had a merit-based system for college attendance

Avatar photo by Andre Perry August 8, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, Universities, Inc.

PODCAST: How colleges and universities are acknowledging their slaveholding pasts

by APM Reports August 7, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

DEBT WITHOUT DEGREE: Students drown in debt despite a $524 million state surplus

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Meredith Kolodner and Sarah Butrymowicz August 4, 2017May 2, 2022
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, Race and Equity

Analysis: Trump’s Justice Dept moves to protect whites in college admissions

by Hechinger Report August 2, 2017April 8, 2021

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