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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.

Jacqueline King
Posted inCommon Core, Higher Education, Opinion

Higher Ed isn’t as far behind on Common Core as you think

by Jacqueline King August 22, 2014April 8, 2021
A Everest College location in Woodbridge, Virginia on July 6, 2014. Corinthian Colleges, the parent company of Everest College and for-profit corporation has come under scrutiny by the Department of Education for alleged predatory recruiting that leaves students with high levels of debt and low graduation rates. Photo Credit: Kristoffer Tripplaar/ Sipa USA (Sipa via AP Images)
Posted inHigher Education, News, Universities, Inc.

Experts counsel students to watch out for warning signs of troubled colleges

by Matt Krupnick August 21, 2014April 8, 2021
A teacher-training workshop at Kennesaw State University in Georgia
Posted inHigher Education, News, Universities, Inc.

Responding to student demand, universities teach teachers how to teach

Avatar photo by Timothy Pratt August 20, 2014April 8, 2021
Posted inBlogs, Higher Education

Trained, jobless and in debt

Avatar photo by Joanne Jacobs August 20, 2014April 8, 2021
Olin College
Posted inHigher Education, News

Federal study finds nearly 40 percent of transfer students got no credit

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus August 20, 2014April 8, 2021
Posted inBlogs, Higher Education

Amid turmoil, classes start at Ferguson college campus

Avatar photo by Joanne Jacobs August 19, 2014April 8, 2021
File photo. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Posted inAndre Perry, Columnists, Elementary to High School, Higher Education, Teaching the Teachers

Teacher-school match: Education needs long relationships, not ‘one-night stands’

Avatar photo by Andre Perry August 19, 2014April 8, 2021
Cohen College Prep’s graduating seniors listen to a classmate speak during last spring’s graduation ceremony — the first for the charter network. (Photo courtesy of New Orleans College Prep)
Posted inElementary to High School, Higher Education, New Orleans, News, The South

Getting kids into college is one thing. Getting them through is another

by Jamaal Abdul-Alim August 18, 2014April 8, 2021
(AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
Posted inColumnists, Elementary to High School, Future of Learning, Higher Education

Robo-readers aren’t as good as human readers — they’re better

Avatar photo by Annie Murphy Paul August 13, 2014April 8, 2021
Posted inElementary to High School, Higher Education, News

Q & A with author Elizabeth Green: Great teachers need ‘specialized skills and knowledge’

Avatar photo by Liz Willen August 11, 2014April 8, 2021

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