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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 inHigher Education, News, Universities, Inc.

Needing revenue, old universities open new campuses where the students are

Avatar photo by Timothy Pratt April 17, 2014April 8, 2021
Posted inCalifornia, Higher Education, News, The West

State among the worst in awarding degrees to Hispanics may surprise you

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus April 15, 2014April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News, Rural Education

Students from rural areas less likely to go to four-year colleges, top universities

Avatar photo by Jackie Mader April 11, 2014February 9, 2022
St. Petersburg College’s Clearwater campus. (Photo: St. Petersburg College)
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News

Community colleges increasingly adding bachelor’s degrees

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus April 10, 2014April 8, 2021
(U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Brock Jones, 128th MPAD)
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion, Student Veterans

Ten ways to make college more friendly to veterans

Avatar photo by Karen Gross March 31, 2014April 8, 2021
Karen R. Lawrence
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

What value really means in higher education

by Karen R. Lawrence March 27, 2014April 8, 2021
Posted inBlogs, Education by the Numbers, Higher Education

Newly minted teachers in 2012 on average owe $429 a month

Avatar photo by Jill Barshay March 26, 2014April 8, 2021
Posted inBlogs, Future of Learning, Higher Education

Yale president takes reins at online education outfit

Avatar photo by Anya Kamenetz March 25, 2014April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

College students bypassing degrees on purpose

by Eddie Small March 25, 2014April 8, 2021
HBX features interactive video lessons and the ability to converse and connect with other students.
Posted inFuture of Learning, Higher Education

Harvard launches its first online business school

by Kirk Carapezza March 24, 2014April 8, 2021

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