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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 inBlogs, Higher Education

Learning and rebuilding in Ferguson

Avatar photo by Joanne Jacobs September 3, 2014April 8, 2021
Samantha Hill, an adviser who helps online students at Rio Salado Community College finish their course work. (Photo: Rio Salado Community College)
Posted inHigher Education, Immigration, News

Community college district tries full slate of innovations, all at once

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus September 2, 2014April 8, 2021
Students at Purdue University. File photo. (AP Photo/Journal & Courier, John Terhune)
Posted inHigher Education, News, Universities, Inc.

Can universities be embarrassed into raising graduation rates?

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus September 2, 2014April 8, 2021
Photo: Peter Taylor
Posted inFuture of Learning, Higher Education, News

Has this new online college program solved the MOOC problem?

Avatar photo by Timothy Pratt August 28, 2014April 8, 2021
File photo. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Posted inHigher Education, News, Universities, Inc.

Programs seek to lower cost of college textbooks

Avatar photo by Laura M. Colarusso August 27, 2014April 8, 2021
Posted inBlogs, Community Colleges, Higher Education

Community colleges should be free

Avatar photo by Joanne Jacobs August 27, 2014April 8, 2021
Kevin Kruger president of NASPA, left, and David Maxwell, president of Drake University, right.
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

Can higher education reinvent our ‘paralyzed and dysfunctional’ democratic process?

Avatar photo by David Maxwell and Kevin Kruger August 26, 2014April 8, 2021
Students at Ivy Tech Community College. (Photo: Ivy Tech Community College)
Posted inHigher Education, News

How to educate Americans for jobs? Ask the Germans, employers urge

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus August 25, 2014April 8, 2021
Posted inBlogs, California, Community Colleges, Higher Education, The West

California OKs 4-year degrees at 2-year colleges

Avatar photo by Joanne Jacobs August 25, 2014April 8, 2021
Posted inBlogs, Community Colleges, Higher Education

For remedial community college students, algebra or statistics?

Avatar photo by Joanne Jacobs August 22, 2014April 8, 2021

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