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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, Universities, Inc.

Top universities could take thousands more low-income students, study says

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus May 2, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inElementary to High School

Students in violence-wracked city learn to cope using poetry

Avatar photo by Andre Perry May 2, 2017October 21, 2020
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion, Universities, Inc.

OPINION: Why do high school seniors leave so much federal money on the table?

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Benjamin Castleman and Jenny Rickard May 2, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News, Solutions, Universities, Inc.

With consumers pushing back against increased tuition, colleges seek new revenue

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus May 1, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inNews

Reality check: After four years of tough college prep, high school seniors grapple with gaps in financial aid

Avatar photo by Liz Willen April 30, 2017July 13, 2021
Posted inNews

With number of student-parents up, availability of campus child care is down

by Matt Krupnick April 27, 2017July 13, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News, Universities, Inc.

Is the college degree outdated?

Avatar photo by Laura Pappano April 27, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inElementary to High School

OPINION: We are not consumers, but citizens, when it comes to schools

Avatar photo by Sarah Stitzlein April 27, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inCommunity Colleges, Higher Education, News, Solutions, Student Veterans

At some colleges that recruit veterans and their GI Bill money, none graduate

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus April 21, 2017July 13, 2021
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, Opinion, Rural Education

OPINION: We can’t afford not to launch rural youth into college success

Avatar photo by Daniel Porterfield April 20, 2017February 9, 2022

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