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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, Opinion

What to do when there are too many students?

by Shaul Kuper March 21, 2014April 8, 2021
Student loans still growing faster than any other debt and now most likely to be 90-days-plus delinquent
Posted inBlogs, Education by the Numbers, Higher Education

Student loans still growing faster than any other debt and now most likely to be 90-days-plus delinquent

Avatar photo by Jill Barshay March 20, 2014April 8, 2021
Six-year outcomes by starting institution type (Source: National Student Clearinghouse)
Posted inHigher Education, News

Barriers to credit transfers lower graduation rates, new study finds

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus March 19, 2014April 8, 2021
Karen Gross
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

The flawed conversation on the cost of U.S. higher education

Avatar photo by Karen Gross March 18, 2014April 8, 2021
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News

Years after promises to fix it, key financial-aid form still thwarts students

Avatar photo by Laura M. Colarusso March 17, 2014April 8, 2021
Tuition tracker
Posted inBlogs, Divided We Learn, Education by the Numbers, Higher Education

Universities with 10 largest endowments raise tuition for low income students more than for high income students

Avatar photo by Jill Barshay March 14, 2014April 8, 2021
Posted inFor-Profit Colleges, Higher Education, News

States crack down on for-profit universities

by Matt Krupnick March 12, 2014April 8, 2021
Posted inElementary to High School, Higher Education, News

Getting into college — and paying for it: A teen’s first adult decision

Avatar photo by Barbara Kantrowitz March 12, 2014April 8, 2021
Tuition tracker
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News, Tuition tracker

College, federal financial aid increasingly benefits the rich

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus March 9, 2014April 8, 2021
Freshman Esmeralda Rosas of Dallas is going to the University of North Texas because of the Emerald Eagle Scholar program, an affordable education plan for lower-income families. Here she is photographed in the campus library where she comes to study, Monday, January 27, 2014. (Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News)
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News, Tuition tracker

How some families pay less for college than others

Avatar photo by Holly K. Hacker March 9, 2014April 8, 2021

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