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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.

Participants celebrate “Selena Day” as part of the Association for the Study of Higher Education annual conference.
Posted inColumnists

Why does pride in blackness provoke such defensiveness?

Avatar photo by Andre Perry November 20, 2018April 8, 2021
Sam Larson, 15, measures a section of his cardboard canoe during ANSEP’s summer Acceleration Academy at the University of Alaska in July 2018.
Posted inElementary to High School, High School Reform, Higher Education, News, Race and Equity, Solutions, The West

Alaska Native students pursue STEM, with great success

Avatar photo by Lillian Mongeau Hughes November 19, 2018April 8, 2021
A statue of George Mason on George Mason University's Fairfax campus in Fairfax, Virginia. The university offers digital badges rather than degrees or certificates for the completion of some courses.
Posted inCommunity Colleges, Higher Education, News, Universities, Inc.

As students flock to credentials other than degrees, quality-control concerns grow

by Matt Krupnick November 16, 2018April 8, 2021
A man watches an artificial intelligence (AI) news anchor from a state-controlled news broadcaster, on his computer in Beijing on November 9, 2018. - China's state-controlled news broadcasters have long been considered somewhat robotic in their daily recitation of pro-government propaganda, and a pair of new presenters will do little to dispel that view.
Posted inColumnists

The future includes good (human) teachers

Avatar photo by Andre Perry November 13, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inNews

Studious friends and roommates might lead to higher grades in college

Avatar photo by Jill Barshay November 12, 2018April 8, 2021
Clarissa Santana is a mother of three who is frustrated when she returns to college at the University of Akron and learns her credits from a for-profit school don’t transfer. She tells her story in the new documentary “Unlikely.”
Posted inColumnists

Two new documentaries showcase a long and winding road to college

Avatar photo by Liz Willen November 12, 2018April 8, 2021
(U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Brock Jones, 128th MPAD)
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

OPINION: How college still eludes veterans 100 years after WWI

Avatar photo by Jacob Hyde November 11, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inNews

How the Georgia governor’s race could influence college access there

Avatar photo by Meredith Kolodner November 9, 2018April 8, 2021
Students in a nursing class at Missoula College in Montana. Data show that nursing is among the highest-demand professions in the state.
Posted inHigher Education, News

One state uses data about job needs to help decide what colleges should teach

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus November 8, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion, Student Voices

STUDENT VOICE: Homeless in fifth grade, now a college sophomore

Gavin Arneson by Gavin Arneson November 6, 2018April 8, 2021

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