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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 inHigher Education, News, Universities, Inc.

From the Archives: Seeking political support, colleges prod students to vote

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus January 15, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

How Free Community College lifts barriers to economic well being

by John S. Levin January 15, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News, Universities, Inc.

Colleges ratchet up recruiting of applicants — just to turn them down

Avatar photo by Laura M. Colarusso January 12, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

President weighs in with plan for ‘free community college’

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus January 8, 2015April 8, 2021
Alan Alda meets with students at Cornell University. The actor and director, who once hosted a television science program, has become an advocate for helping academics communicate more clearly with the public. Photo: Lindsay France/Cornell University Photography
Posted inGraduate Students, Higher Education, News, Universities, Inc.

Needing public support, academics try to make their work more clear

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus January 8, 2015April 8, 2021
Patricia McGuire is the president of Trinity Washington University.
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

A university president defends Catholic colleges after Hechinger story on high costs

Patricia McGuire is the president of Trinity Washington University. by Patricia McGuire January 8, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

Rising tuition costs, low graduation rates and innovative community colleges: A look back at Hechinger’s top higher ed stories of 2014

by Hechinger Report December 30, 2014April 8, 2021
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News

Catholic colleges tell poor students: Go somewhere else

by Paul Moses December 22, 2014April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

Obama ratings would divide colleges into high and low performing

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus December 19, 2014April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

College costs rise fastest for the poorest

by Hechinger Report December 17, 2014April 8, 2021

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