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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.

Curt Rice, incoming president of Oslo and Akershus University College, or HiOA.
Posted inHigher Education, News

In Norway, where college is free, children of uneducated parents still don’t go

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus June 10, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education

Former Florida governor’s reforms – acclaimed by Obama – may become a liability

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus June 10, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inAndre Perry, Columnists, Higher Education, New Orleans, The South

How a shoeshine boy got to college — as its president

Avatar photo by Andre Perry June 9, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inFuture of Learning, Higher Education, News

A challenge and a reward: $7 million XPrize to create ed tech for adult literacy

Avatar photo by Nichole Dobo June 8, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inColumnists, Education by the Numbers, Higher Education, Proof Points

The heaviest college debt burdens fall on three types of students

Avatar photo by Jill Barshay June 8, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inColumnists, Higher Education

Changing the incentives for colleges to enroll and graduate low-income students

Stephen Burd by Stephen Burd June 3, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inColumnists, Community Colleges, Education by the Numbers, Higher Education, Proof Points, Universities, Inc.

Underestimating the true cost of college

Avatar photo by Jill Barshay June 1, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, Mississippi, News, The South

Mississippi to open first early college program styled after schools in North Carolina

Avatar photo by Kayleigh Skinner May 31, 2015October 21, 2020
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

Why most first-generation college students will attend ‘second-tier’ schools

Avatar photo by Karen Gross May 28, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

New education stats show higher education climb has slowed

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus May 28, 2015April 8, 2021

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