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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 inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, Mississippi, News, The South

At one Mississippi university, a free passport and maybe ticket to study abroad

Avatar photo by Kayleigh Skinner February 20, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education

How many already attend community college for free?

Avatar photo by Jill Barshay February 16, 2015April 28, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

Congressional report—by colleges—complains they’re over-regulated

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus February 12, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inDivided We Learn, Elementary to High School, Guidance Gap, Higher Education, News

Rich school, poor school

by Erin Einhorn February 9, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News

The financial aid policy that shuts out millions of students

Avatar photo by Meredith Kolodner February 6, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

Enrollment in online courses slows, new report finds

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus February 5, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inAndre Perry, Columnists, Higher Education, New Orleans, The South

The reality of college “fit”: Options are limited for young men of color

Avatar photo by Andre Perry February 3, 2015April 8, 2021
Music students at the University of Alaska, Anchorage. The music program is being pitted against other departments in the competition for funds.
Posted inHigher Education, News

Academics forced to prove their worth

by Matt Krupnick January 28, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

Free college for all: Why I’m skeptical

by D. Patrick Saxon January 22, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education

What it takes to get into New York City’s best public colleges

Avatar photo by LynNell Hancock and Meredith Kolodner January 15, 2015April 8, 2021

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