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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

Why more black students are enrolling in historically black colleges

Avatar photo by Timothy Pratt September 28, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inNews

U.S. quietly works to expand apprenticeships to fill white-collar jobs

by Matt Krupnick September 27, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

OPINION: Trump has said he’ll eliminate the Dept. of Ed if he’s elected. As a 1st Gen college student, this frightens me

Avatar photo by Roxanne Schroeder-Arce September 27, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News

The business decision segregating college students by income and race

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus September 26, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inOpinion

What if #FreeCollege actually hurts the very students it is supposed to help?

by Max Eden September 26, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inFor-Profit Colleges, Higher Education, News

Under pressure, groups that assess colleges promise to take a closer look at graduation rates

Avatar photo by Meredith Kolodner September 21, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, Opinion, Universities, Inc.

The five things no one will tell you about why colleges don’t hire more faculty of color

Avatar photo by Marybeth Gasman September 20, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

Eligible but got nothing: Hundreds of thousands of people with disabilities blocked from college aid

Avatar photo by Meredith Kolodner September 20, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

The mindboggling barriers that colleges create — and that end up hurting their own students

Avatar photo by Mikhail Zinshteyn September 19, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inCommunity Colleges, Higher Education, News

As economy rebounds, state funding for higher education isn’t bouncing back

Avatar photo by Luba Ostashevsky September 15, 2016April 8, 2021

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