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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.

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Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

OPINION: Failure to seal the financial aid deal is bad business for schools and students

Gregg Scoresby by Gregg Scoresby December 27, 2018April 8, 2021
Glenda Martin of Fort Dodge borrowed $23,000. She said that she supported Iowa’s 2,100-hour requirement in theory but that in practice, many of those hours were wasted.
Posted inNews

Tangled up in debt

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Sarah Butrymowicz and Meredith Kolodner December 26, 2018April 8, 2021
University Innovation Alliance
Posted inOpinion

OPINION: These big universities put rivalries aside to raise graduation rates for low-income students

Bridget BurnsPeter J. Taylor by Bridget Burns and Peter J. Taylor December 26, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inNews

10 of the most important stories about education research in 2018

Avatar photo by Jill Barshay December 24, 2018April 8, 2021
(Left to right) Carol Cannon and her son, Johnathan, welcome teachers Cathy Jack and Pamela George for the first of two visits the pair will make to their Hemphill, West Virginia, home. The second visit will follow early in the new year.
Posted inElementary to High School

Home visiting in high school: Trying an intervention for toddlers on teenagers

by Peggy Barmore December 23, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion, Race and Equity

OPINION: Are colleges failing first-generation students?

Andrew Geant by Andrew Geant December 18, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inNews

The ‘dirty secret’ about educational innovation

Avatar photo by Jill Barshay December 17, 2018April 8, 2021
As a student from a tiny rural hometown, Kendra Beaudoin found unexpected obstacles when she arrived last year at the University of Michigan. She had to use a paper map to find her way around after losing her phone, couldn’t figure out the bus system and didn’t understand crosswalks. “Those aren’t a thing where I live.”
Posted inNews

Some colleges extend scholarships and other help to rural high school grads

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus December 12, 2018February 9, 2022
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion, Race and Equity

OPINION: 3 ways that colleges can support underrepresented students after the Harvard case

Kate Webster by Kate Webster December 11, 2018April 8, 2021
Chestnut Hill College director of student success Kim Cooney meets with senior Erin Crowley. Cooney changed her major at the end of her junior year in college, adding an extra semester to the time it took to graduate. Now she tries to help others make the right decisions sooner.
Posted inHigher Education, News, Solutions

Switching majors is adding time and tuition to the already high cost of college

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus December 7, 2018April 8, 2021

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