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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, Higher Education, News

Michelle Obama calls for changing cultural norms that keep girls from school

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus November 4, 2015April 8, 2021
Patricia Howard, who travels from Corona, Queens, to the College of Staten Island, says the shuttle bus makes the commute feasible.
Posted inHigher Education, News

Can better transportation increase diversity on college campuses?

Avatar photo by Meredith Kolodner November 4, 2015April 8, 2021
Graduates line a hallway waiting for fall commencement at Shelton State community college in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Posted inHigh School Reform, Higher Education, News

Alabama offers high school students – and their parents – tuition-free community college

Avatar photo by Meredith Kolodner November 4, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, Mississippi, Opinion, The South

Mississippi professor sees hope for his state in students’ symbolic flag victory

Avatar photo by Eric Thomas Weber November 3, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inCalifornia, Higher Education, News, The West

Some small universities can promise big paychecks

Avatar photo by Andra Cernavskis November 1, 2015April 8, 2021
A student cheers during the University of Mississippi commencement ceremony in Oxford, Miss., Saturday, May 10, 2014. (AP Photo/The Daily Mississippian, Thomas Graning)
Posted inCommunity Colleges, Elementary to High School, High School Reform, Higher Education, Opinion

As toxic Washington ed debate rages, public early colleges quietly solve U.S. inequity

Avatar photo by Leon Botstein October 29, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

Graduates of four-year universities flock to community colleges for job skills

by Matt Krupnick October 28, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inElementary to High School, Higher Education, News, Rural Education, Teacher Preparation

How teacher-training programs are trying to get teachers into rural schools

Avatar photo by Jackie Mader October 28, 2015February 9, 2022
Posted inAndre Perry, Columnists, Elementary to High School, Higher Education, Mississippi, The South

If the president won’t put children first, who will?

Avatar photo by Andre Perry October 27, 2015October 21, 2020
Posted inHigher Education, News

New supports for first-gen students: Helpful or just ‘a drop in the bucket?’

Avatar photo by Arianna Skibell October 26, 2015April 8, 2021

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