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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.

Students in the Fullbridge Program, which charges them for business knowledge critics of colleges say they ought to get there. (Photo: The Fullbridge Program)
Posted inHigher Education, News, Universities, Inc.

Students paying extra for business skills they say they haven’t learned on campus

Avatar photo by Laura M. Colarusso July 8, 2014April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

Colleges keep increasing discounts to keep students coming

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus July 2, 2014April 8, 2021
Students leave a high school after they finished a Chinese literature exam, the first of four exams of the two-day college entrance exam, in Beijing Saturday, June 7, 2014. More than nine million students will compete in this year's national college entrance exam across China for less than seven million college seats. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)
Posted inHigher Education, News

Concerns rise about cheating by Chinese applicants to U.S. colleges

Avatar photo by Timothy Pratt July 1, 2014April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, Mississippi, News, The South

Report: Better health and child care could mean more Mississippi college graduates

Avatar photo by Kayleigh Skinner June 30, 2014April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

Can historically black colleges serve mostly white students?

Avatar photo by Sarah Butrymowicz June 27, 2014April 8, 2021
Joseph Nelzy and his College Match advisor, Alysha Rashid, at Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn.
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News

New program steers bright poor kids to top universities and colleges

by Jamaal Abdul-Alim June 25, 2014April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

Policy groups urge using tax credits to improve college performance

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus June 24, 2014April 8, 2021
Posted inCommon Core, Higher Education, News

Higher education scrambles to get ready for the Common Core

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus June 24, 2014April 8, 2021
Posted inBlogs, Education by the Numbers, Higher Education

Study finds taking intro statistics class online does no harm

Avatar photo by Jill Barshay June 23, 2014April 8, 2021
Posted inElementary to High School, Higher Education, Lessons from Freedom Summer, Mississippi, News, The South

Next generation of activists confronts Mississippi’s violent past on Freedom Summer anniversary

Avatar photo by Liz Willen June 20, 2014April 8, 2021

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