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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.

Eighteen-year-old Wellington Coleman studies at Southern University of New Orleans through a special program, and hopes someday to become a software engineer.
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News

New policies close off opportunities to college applicants in need of extra help

Avatar photo by Sarah Carr July 10, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inArts Education, Higher Education, Opinion

Advocates for arts education may be doing more harm than good

Avatar photo by John Bare July 9, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

Trying to figure out what taxpayers are getting for college financial aid

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

The obstacles to going back to college

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus July 6, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inColumnists, Education by the Numbers, Elementary to High School, High School Reform, Higher Education, Math Achievement, Proof Points

Signs that fewer black students are taking calculus in high school

Avatar photo by Jill Barshay July 6, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

Lower-income students to top colleges: A little help here!

Avatar photo by Daniel Porterfield July 2, 2015April 8, 2021
Maria Malik will be going to Princeton University in the fall on a full scholarship.
Posted inGuidance Gap, Higher Education, News

How one observant Muslim girl persuaded her parents to let her go to Princeton

Avatar photo by Meredith Kolodner July 1, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inColumnists, Higher Education

One struggling city’s bold effort to increase its number of college graduates

Stephen Burd by Stephen Burd July 1, 2015March 30, 2020
James Brooks, director of marketing at Mount Zion Baptist Church, Degrees Matter! associate director Camy Sorge, and pastor Odell Cleveland work together to encourage members of the congregation to return to school.
Posted inHigher Education, News

From pews to classes, a new push for higher ed in church

Avatar photo by Kayleigh Skinner June 29, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News

States moving college scholarship money away from the poor, to the wealthy and middle class

Avatar photo by Meredith Kolodner June 22, 2015April 8, 2021

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