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The Hechinger Report

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

We need more black people rooting for tech entrepreneurs, not just football players

Avatar photo by Andre Perry December 5, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

Eligible for job and college aid, half of Tennesseans with disabilities get nothing

Avatar photo by Meredith Kolodner December 5, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inCommunity Colleges, Higher Education, News

After falling, college graduation rates begin to rebound

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus December 5, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inNews

Universities cut services for a big group of their students: those over 25

by Matt Krupnick December 1, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inNews

Report: “Education is key” to quelling Middle East discord

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus November 30, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News, Solutions

Canadian schools succeed in nudging one minority group to and through college

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus November 25, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News

At the University of Georgia, black students navigate in a white world

Avatar photo by Nick Chiles November 25, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News

At Georgia State, more black students graduate each year than at any U.S. college

Avatar photo by Nick Chiles November 25, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inElementary to High School, Higher Education, Opinion

OPINION: Trump names school-choice advocate DeVos to his cabinet, ushering in a new era in education

Robert Rothman by Robert Rothman November 23, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inCommunity Colleges, Higher Education, News, Solutions

A huge and stubborn reason, still unsolved, that students go into so much debt

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus November 22, 2016April 8, 2021

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