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.
OPINION: Here’s a novel way to keep students in college: good teaching
Instructional practices that make the grade
OPINION: ‘Our student loan policy has been corrupted by the powerful companies that profit from it’
We need rules to stop businesses from buying their way into the driver’s seat in federal agencies
COLUMN: College students predicted to fall by more than 15% after the year 2025
But high demand likely to persist for top 100 elite institutions
STUDENT VOICE: The first in my family to go to college, thanks to a scholarship — and a borrowed van
Keeping the dream alive in Ecuador, New Jersey and Washington, D.C.
Maxine Waters chastises for-profit colleges and DeVos Leadership
“One of the biggest rip-offs and scandals in government”
Colleges welcome first-year students by getting them thinking about jobs
Increasingly judged on graduates’ success, some start career advising very, very early
Old Idea, New Economy: Rediscovering Apprenticeships
You might think apprenticeships are a relic from an earlier era, but a growing number of Americans are using them as a way into the middle class. South Carolina has…
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OPINION: Asian, black and Latino solidarity should come first
There’s more to student success than hard work and merit
Quantifying the risks of working while in college
Low-income students who work are less likely to excel in their studies
Bending to the law of supply and demand, some colleges are dropping their prices
Cuts to advertised tuition come in the face of an enrollment drop and consumer backlash