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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 inNews

Students scramble as application season races down to the wire

Avatar photo by Liz Willen December 12, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inNews

Twenty-one and in high school

Avatar photo by Luba Ostashevsky December 12, 2016January 18, 2024
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News

Will changes in online college applications help students chase the American dream?

by Ricki Morell December 9, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News

Conquering the confusing common app: These tips will help

by Ricki Morell December 9, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion, Universities, Inc.

OPINION: Touted as the next big solution, competency ed programs that stress skills aren’t always a ‘quick and easy moneymaker,’ study finds

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Donna Desrochers and Rick Staisloff December 8, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inElementary to High School, Higher Education, Mississippi, News, The South

Mississippi governor named chairman of national education center

Avatar photo by Sierra Mannie December 7, 2016April 8, 2021
DACA status
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, Immigration, News, Race and Equity, Solutions

Defying political pushback, private colleges quietly enroll undocumented students

Avatar photo by Timothy Pratt December 6, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inAndre Perry, Columnists, Higher Education, New Orleans, The South

Youth aren’t props — they need an actual seat at the policy table

Avatar photo by Andre Perry December 6, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News, Race and Equity

Colleges face a new reality, as the number of high school graduates will decline

Avatar photo by Mikhail Zinshteyn December 6, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

Obama administration tries to smooth path back to school for jailed students

Avatar photo by Rebecca Klein December 5, 2016April 8, 2021

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