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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.

Ninth grade students organize nuts and bolts the day after their end-of-the-year showcase in which they flew their school-made drones for parents and visitors.
Posted inElementary to High School, Future of Learning, High School Reform, Higher Education, News

Are we blaming high school when college needs a reality check?

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Elliot Washor and Chris Jackson August 20, 2015March 30, 2020
Students in the Jewish Homes’s geriatric career development program take summer classes taught by registered nurses at Hostos Community College.
Posted inHigher Education, News

Employers step in to help low-income students get through college

Avatar photo by Meredith Kolodner August 19, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

Low-income students struggle to pay for college, even in rare states that offer help

by Matt Krupnick August 18, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education

Pell grant recipient graduation rates from the country’s largest colleges

Avatar photo by Sarah Butrymowicz August 17, 2015April 8, 2021
Cal students in the Doe Library at UC Berkeley.
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News, Universities, Inc.

Billions in Pell dollars go to students who never graduate

Avatar photo by Sarah Butrymowicz August 17, 2015April 8, 2021
Students in the College Bridge program also get support dealing with their own struggles as first-generation, low-income college students.
Posted inElementary to High School, Higher Education, News

Why are low-income students not showing up to college, even though they have been accepted?

Avatar photo by Meredith Kolodner August 14, 2015March 30, 2020
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

Why are fewer foreign students heading to the U.S. and more to Australia?

Avatar photo by Patrick Blessinger August 13, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News, Universities, Inc.

Benefits for their retirees could thwart universities’ cost-cutting plans

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus August 10, 2015April 8, 2021
In this Jan. 28, 2015 photo, College of DuPage President Robert Breuder listens at a special meeting in Glen Ellyn, Ill., to address the severance package awarded to him at a previous COD board meeting. Federal prosecutors are investigating spending and other issues at the college.
Posted inHigher Education, News, Universities, Inc.

Think university administrators’ salaries are high? Critics say their benefits are lavish

Avatar photo by Matt Krupnick and Jon Marcus August 5, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

Liberal arts-STEM mashup: Not a bad way to fix higher ed

Avatar photo by Eugene Tobin July 30, 2015April 8, 2021

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