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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 inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News, Tuition tracker

Poorer families are bearing the brunt of college price hikes, data show

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Jon Marcus and Holly K. Hacker March 9, 2014April 8, 2021
Posted inBlogs, Community Colleges, Education by the Numbers, Higher Education

Almost a third of college drop outs would have been more likely to graduate had they started at a two-year college

Avatar photo by Jill Barshay March 6, 2014April 8, 2021
Posted inBlogs, Elementary to High School, Future of Learning, Higher Education

Live from SXSWEdu: Who’s Khan Academy in bed with now?

Avatar photo by Anya Kamenetz March 6, 2014April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

Should higher education produce happiness? Or should college focus on jobs and productivity?

Avatar photo by Liz Willen March 5, 2014April 8, 2021
Posted inFuture of Learning, Higher Education, News

As online courses expand, so do questions about ownership

Avatar photo by Sarah Butrymowicz March 3, 2014April 8, 2021
Posted inBlogs, Future of Learning, Higher Education

For college grads, a start-up answers the question, “Now what?”

Avatar photo by Anya Kamenetz February 27, 2014April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, Mississippi, News, The South

Soul-searching and frustration at University of Mississippi after statue vandalism

Avatar photo by Kayleigh Skinner February 27, 2014April 8, 2021
Posted inBlogs, Community Colleges, Higher Education

How to boost college graduation rates for black and Latino males

Avatar photo by Sarah Carr February 26, 2014April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

Greater expectations for educational attainment: Government and colleges can do more

Avatar photo by Donald E. Heller February 25, 2014April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, Mississippi, The South

Latest racial incident brings pain, sadness for first black female ‘Ole Miss’ student body president

by Kimbrely Dandridge February 24, 2014April 8, 2021

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