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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 inColumnists

Saving academic freedom from Trump’s “post-truth” nation

Avatar photo by Andre Perry November 22, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

OPINION: History Lesson: Did the election just erase 250 years of progress?

Avatar photo by Jonathan Lash November 18, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News, Universities, Inc.

Public universities have “really lost our focus”

Avatar photo by Mikhail Zinshteyn November 18, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inCommunity Colleges, For-Profit Colleges, Higher Education, News, Solutions

A bid to show which colleges are worth the money reveals some surprises

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus November 17, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

As college costs rise, so do the number of administrators

by Hechinger Report November 17, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, Opinion

OPINION: Trump has promised manufacturing jobs, but high school grads might want to seek credentialed “middle-skills” posts instead

Avatar photo by Anthony Carnevale November 15, 2016April 8, 2021
Cal students at UC Berkeley on Friday, April 10, 2015.
Posted inNews

Number of international students at U.S. universities hits new high amid Trump worries

by Matt Krupnick November 14, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inColumnists

After Trump victory, black professors speak out about the routine racism of academia

Avatar photo by Andre Perry November 11, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

The other college kids: They hold jobs and worry about costs, and what they think of President Trump might surprise you

Avatar photoAvatar photoAvatar photoAvatar photoAvatar photo by Emmanuel Felton, Lillian Mongeau Hughes, Meredith Kolodner, Nichole Dobo and Sarah Garland November 10, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

OPINION: Like it or not, Trump is the next president — Now, here’s how he can improve higher ed

Avatar photo by F. King Alexander November 9, 2016April 8, 2021

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