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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

How elite private colleges might serve black students better

Avatar photo by Emmanuel Felton December 23, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

CEOs tackle skills gap in schools, workplaces and beyond

Avatar photo by Dane Linn December 22, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

How one top college bucked a trend to take more poor and nonwhite applicants

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus December 18, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News

Black students are drastically underrepresented at top public colleges, data show

Avatar photo by Meredith Kolodner December 18, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education

The realities of being black at one Texas university

Avatar photo by Dianne Solis and Holly K. Hacker December 17, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News

The rich-poor divide on America’s college campuses is getting wider, fast

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Jon Marcus and Holly K. Hacker December 17, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

College enrollment declines for fourth straight year

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus December 16, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

New report proposes helping students qualify for benefits including food stamps

by Jamaal Abdul-Alim December 15, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inColumnists, Education by the Numbers, Future of Learning, Higher Education, Proof Points

Did you love watching lectures from your professors?

Avatar photo by Jill Barshay December 14, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

Where budding chefs and future military leaders learn philosophy, too

by Hechinger Report December 11, 2015April 8, 2021

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