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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 inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News, Solutions

When foster kids are moved around, schooling becomes an afterthought

Avatar photo by Caroline Preston May 25, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inElementary to High School

OPINION: Yes ­­­– you absolutely can, in good conscience, cut the federal education budget

Avatar photo by Neal McCluskey May 25, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inCommunity Colleges, Higher Education, News

Trump’s budget axes campus-based childcare for low-income students

Avatar photo by Meredith Kolodner May 25, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inElementary to High School

Does the education budget reveal a ‘DeVos Doctrine?’

by Hechinger Report May 24, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News, Race and Equity

Five things American colleges need to do to help black and Latino students

Avatar photo by Nick Chiles May 24, 2017July 29, 2021
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News, Race and Equity

Experts offer black and Latino college students eight tips for success

Avatar photo by Nick Chiles May 24, 2017July 29, 2021
Posted inOpinion

STUDENT VOICE: From skipping class to Summa Cum Laude

Avatar photo by Bashir Ali May 22, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inCommunity Colleges, Higher Education, News

What good is new summer Pell money if students can’t use it?

Avatar photo by Meredith Kolodner May 19, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion, Student Voices

STUDENT VOICE: They told me I’d never go to college but I just finished my freshman year — what about all the other students with autism?

Avatar photo by Jordyn Zimmerman May 18, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inElementary to High School, Higher Education

The highs and lows of Betsy DeVos’ first 100 days

by Hechinger Report May 17, 2017April 8, 2021

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