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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 inElementary to High School

The children of children who went to desegregated schools reap benefits, too, study finds

Avatar photo by Jill Barshay May 23, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News

What happens when a college recruits black students others consider too risky?

Avatar photo by Meredith Kolodner May 19, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inNews

Designing ways to move beyond diversity

by Kathleen Lucadamo May 19, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

States have cut money for higher education 17 percent since the recession, report finds

Avatar photo by Mikhail Zinshteyn May 19, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inOpinion

Who will help teachers rescue the 800 million people who can’t read or write?

Avatar photo by Marcie Craig Post May 19, 2016March 30, 2020
Posted inNews

How first-generation students are helping each other through college

Avatar photo by Lillian Mongeau Hughes May 18, 2016April 8, 2021
The University of Mount Olive in North Carolina, which recruits community college graduates.
Posted inColumnists

With fight in Maryland stalled, Congress must take lead in battle over financial aid ‘displacement’

Stephen Burd by Stephen Burd May 18, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

Temple University is spending millions to get more students through college, but is there a cheaper way?

Avatar photo by Emmanuel Felton May 18, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inOpinion

American colleges need to end admissions “Hunger Games” and take a page from the U.K. playbook instead

by Claire Schultz May 17, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inNews

Students are enlisted to help flailing classmates deal with money matters

Avatar photo by Timothy Pratt May 16, 2016April 8, 2021

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