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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

Colleges confront the simple math that keeps students from graduating on time

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

Colleges offer microgrants to help low-income students pay bills that can derail them

Avatar photo by Timothy Pratt February 17, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News

Outdated Pell rules may discriminate against low-income students

Avatar photo by Meredith Kolodner February 16, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inCalifornia, Higher Education, Opinion, The West

Making inroads in California and beyond with the Community College Pathways Program

Avatar photo by Chris Thorn February 16, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, Opinion

How a couple of colleges attacked the status quo by booting admissions tests, waitlists

Avatar photo by Meredith Twombly February 11, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inColumnists, Higher Education

Why UW-Madison’s plan to become bigger “merit aid” player is bad for U.S. public higher education

Stephen Burd by Stephen Burd February 10, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

Enrollment in online courses rises, but their importance to academic chiefs wanes

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus February 9, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, Immigration, News

Volunteer ‘Pushy Moms’ help community college students transfer to four-year schools

Avatar photo by Barbara Kantrowitz February 8, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

The devastating impact in the state that’s cut higher education the most

by Gordon Russell February 4, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

Gates Foundation adds its voice to calls for closer scrutiny of colleges

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus February 2, 2016April 8, 2021

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