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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.

Long Beach City College in California. (Photo: Long Beach City College)
Posted inNews

Want higher-ed reform? You may be surprised where you’ll find it

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus October 6, 2014April 8, 2021
Ted Mitchell, Under Secretary of U.S. Department of Education, discussing colleges' role in training students for the workplace (Photo: Emmanuel Felton)
Posted inHigher Education, News

Can focusing on workplace skills increase college completion rates?

Avatar photo by Emmanuel Felton October 3, 2014April 8, 2021
Donald E. Heller
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

Why the U.S. isn’t likely to meet Obama’s goal on college graduation rates

Avatar photo by Donald E. Heller October 2, 2014April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

LinkedIn ranks colleges by whether their graduates get “desirable” jobs

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus October 1, 2014April 8, 2021
Posted inAndre Perry, Columnists, Higher Education, New Orleans, The South

How college ed programs try, fail to recruit teachers of color

Avatar photo by Andre Perry September 30, 2014April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

Facing money and enrollment squeeze, more women’s colleges go coed

by Alexandria Neason September 29, 2014April 8, 2021
File photo of a group of graduating Richland Community College students recite an oath after receiving their nursing pins in Decatur, Ill. (AP Photo/Herald & Review, Mark Roberts)
Posted inHigher Education, News, Universities, Inc.

Colleges take cues from private business to improve their customer service

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus September 25, 2014April 8, 2021
File photo. (AP Photo/Jaime Henry-White)
Posted inColumnists, Future of Learning, Higher Education

How computer coding can increase engagement, provide a purpose for learning

Avatar photo by Annie Murphy Paul September 24, 2014April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News, Universities, Inc.

The real cost of college? It’s probably even higher than you think

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus September 23, 2014April 8, 2021
Brad Pitt waves as he arrives at the Paramount Theatre of the Arts for the premiere screening of the movie "Moneyball" Monday, Sept. 19, 2011, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

What can higher ed learn from ‘Moneyball?’

by Shaul Kuper September 23, 2014April 8, 2021

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