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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.

Tristan Wright-Crishon works in a music technology lab at Queensborough Community College.
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

Free community college could cost more than we think

Avatar photo by Karen Gross March 5, 2015April 8, 2021
Students walk across campus at the University of Vermont on Monday, April 30, 2012 in Burlington, Vt.
Posted inGraduate Students, Higher Education, News, Universities, Inc.

How an oversupply of PhDs could threaten American science

by Brenda Iasevoli March 2, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inColumnists, Community Colleges, Education by the Numbers, Higher Education, Proof Points

Location, location, location: Are top universities too far away from low-income high school graduates?

Avatar photo by Jill Barshay March 2, 2015April 8, 2021
Colleges send out realms of encouraging mail to potential applicants every year in stepped-up-recruiting campaigns.
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

Gaming the numbers? Conflicting college admissions messages confound parents and kids

Avatar photo by Liz Willen March 2, 2015March 30, 2020
Posted inElementary to High School, Higher Education

As a whole new kind of college emerges, critics fret over standards

by Matt Krupnick February 24, 2015April 8, 2021
Rio Hondo College, a community college near Los Angeles.
Posted inCommunity Colleges, Higher Education, News

Critics question Obama’s free community college idea

Avatar photo by Joanne Jacobs February 24, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inAndre Perry, Columnists, Elementary to High School, Higher Education, New Orleans, The South

Q&A with Shaun Harper: Fix the system, and black and brown men will follow

Avatar photo by Andre Perry February 24, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News, Universities, Inc.

Colleges appeal to Congress to cut regulations they say drive up costs

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus February 23, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inColumnists, Community Colleges, Education by the Numbers, Higher Education, News, Proof Points

Students are returning to for-profit colleges

Avatar photo by Jill Barshay February 23, 2015April 8, 2021
Carson-Newman University in Jefferson City, Tennessee.
Posted inNews

The unexpected reason some in higher ed fear free community college

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus February 20, 2015April 28, 2021

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