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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 inHigher Education, News

Some religious colleges forgo federal funding, staying free of civil rights rules

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Ibby Caputo and Jon Marcus July 7, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inOpinion

College admissions favor the rich. Let’s turn it around before taxpayer-funded tuition relief becomes another handout for the wealthy

Avatar photo by Jim Wolfston July 5, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, Opinion

An Ode To STEM? What poets can teach academic scientists

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy and Uri Wilensky June 30, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

Supreme Court decision on affirmative action could change college admissions nationally – and prompt more lawsuits

Avatar photo by Meredith Kolodner June 23, 2016October 10, 2022
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

The high court just upheld affirmative action. But for disadvantaged students, the odds are still daunting

Avatar photo by Catharine Bond Hill June 23, 2016October 10, 2022
Posted inNews

Affirmative action wins a major victory at the Supreme Court

Avatar photo by Meredith Kolodner June 23, 2016October 10, 2022
Posted inHigher Education, Lessons From Abroad, Opinion

Can U.S. and U.K. higher ed systems scale up higher quality and cost efficient education?

Avatar photo by Richard Garrett June 23, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inEducation by the Numbers

State-of-the-art education software often doesn’t help students learn more, study finds

Avatar photo by Jill Barshay June 20, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inOpinion

How I broke away from the endless cycle of poverty, meth and jail in rural Kentucky

Avatar photo by Leslie Smith June 16, 2016February 9, 2022
Posted inEducation by the Numbers

Data show International Baccalaureate (IB) classes help low-income students

Avatar photo by Jill Barshay June 13, 2016April 8, 2021

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