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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 inColumnists, Community Colleges, Education by the Numbers, Future of Learning, Higher Education, Proof Points

The online paradox at community colleges

Avatar photo by Jill Barshay May 11, 2015April 8, 2021
Duke University, which advocates praise for helping low-income students decipher financial-aid offers.
Posted inHigher Education, News

Confusing college financial-aid letters leave students, parents adrift

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus May 7, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inColumnists, Higher Education

Leveling the playing field for low-income students

Stephen Burd by Stephen Burd May 6, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inCommunity Colleges, Higher Education, News

Why are graduation rates at community colleges so low?

Avatar photo by Meredith Kolodner May 5, 2015April 8, 2021
The University of Texas Board of Regents meets on Feb. 12, 2015.
Posted inHigher Education, News, Universities, Inc.

Once invisible, college boards of trustees are suddenly in the spotlight

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus April 30, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inCalifornia, Columnists, Community Colleges, Education by the Numbers, Future of Learning, Higher Education, Proof Points, The West

Five studies find online courses are not working well at community colleges

Avatar photo by Jill Barshay April 27, 2015April 8, 2021
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks to students and faculty during a campaign stop at New Hampshire Technical Institute, Tuesday, April 21, 2015, in Concord, N.H.
Posted inColumnists, Higher Education

Hillary Clinton should acknowledge that tuition tax breaks don’t work

Stephen Burd by Stephen Burd April 22, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inCommunity Colleges, Higher Education, News

Why community college leaders are skeptical about Obama’s free college plan

by Matt Krupnick April 20, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

Community colleges raise alarm on graduation pledge

by Matt Krupnick April 20, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News, Universities, Inc.

College “bait and switch”

Avatar photo by Timothy Pratt April 20, 2015April 8, 2021

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