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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.

This Nov. 19, 2014, file photo shows Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal as he speaks at the Republican Governors Association annual conference in Boca Raton, Fla. The conference felt like a test run for what is increasingly shaping up as a brutal showdown for the Republican presidential nomination among more than a dozen potential contenders. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter, File)
Posted inAndre Perry, Columnists, Higher Education, New Orleans, The South

Why University of New Orleans faculty would be better off taking their concerns to a new governor

Avatar photo by Andre Perry December 16, 2014April 8, 2021
Phillip B. Levine
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

College pricing data by income level: Do the right thing

by Phillip B. Levine December 15, 2014April 8, 2021
Posted inFuture of Learning, Higher Education, News

Is technology actually making higher education less efficient?

by Ryan Derousseau December 12, 2014April 8, 2021
Sharon P. Robinson is the president and chief executive officer of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

Burdensome, restrictive, flawed: Why proposed federal regulations for teacher preparation programs are a cause for concern

by Sharon Robinson December 11, 2014April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

U.S. university enrollment continues to slide

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus December 11, 2014April 8, 2021
Georgia State University. (Source: Georgia State University)
Posted inHigher Education, News, Universities, Inc.

Like retailers tracking trends, colleges use data to predict grades, graduations

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus December 10, 2014April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

More from inside the student loan dilemma

by Hechinger Report December 10, 2014April 8, 2021
Students at the Minerva Schools at KGI take classes through an online program. The students are required to live together in the same city, but they are allowed to log on anywhere to attend classes. (Credit: submitted photo, Minerva Schools at KGI.)
Posted inFuture of Learning, Higher Education, News

What if a college ditched lecture halls, sports and clubs?

Avatar photo by Nichole Dobo December 10, 2014April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

White House summit calls for using data to boost graduation rates

Avatar photo by Emmanuel Felton December 5, 2014April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

Advocates say feds can force states to increase spending on higher ed

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus December 3, 2014April 8, 2021

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