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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, Lessons From Abroad, News, Race and Equity

In one country, anger over soaring college costs has led to violent protest

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus March 8, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News, Universities, Inc.

Good news for college applicants: Getting in is easier than they think

by Greg Daugherty March 8, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inFuture of Learning, Higher Education, News

When using data to predict outcomes, consider the ethical dilemmas, new report urges

Avatar photo by Nichole Dobo March 8, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inCommunity Colleges, Higher Education, Mississippi, News, The South

Are Mississippi’s students prepared for college?

Avatar photo by Jackie Mader March 7, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inOpinion

OPINION: How civil rights enforcement got swept into the culture wars, and what a new administration can do about it

Avatar photo by R. Shep Melnick March 2, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inOpinion

OPINION: It’s time for us to be what my grandmother was to me after my mother’s murder: An advocate

Avatar photo by Shavar Jeffries March 2, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inNews

Is teacher preparation failing students with disabilities?

Avatar photo by Jackie Mader March 1, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inElementary to High School

Students’ worry: education technology might predict failure before they have a chance to succeed

Avatar photo by Nichole Dobo March 1, 2017April 1, 2021
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News

Similar students, different results: where black college students do best, and worst

Avatar photo by Meredith Kolodner March 1, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inElementary to High School, Higher Education, Opinion

OPINION: Civil rights enforcement is needed, when some school administrators call sexual harassment merely “urban culture”

Avatar photo by Catherine E. Lhamon February 27, 2017April 8, 2021

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