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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.

UCI students vote early at the University of California, Irvine on Tuesday, October 30, 2018.
Posted inColumnists

Go vote. The best civics lesson requires you to leave the classroom

Avatar photo by Andre Perry November 5, 2018October 29, 2024
Posted inHigher Education, Race and Equity

Despite decades of pledging to hire more black faculty, most universities didn’t

by APM Reports November 5, 2018April 8, 2021
Greg Cruey, a teacher at Southside K-8 school, greeting students in the morning.
Posted inElementary to High School

Teachers are first responders to the opioid crisis

Avatar photo by Rebecca Klein November 3, 2018April 8, 2021
The Challenger Learning Center at the Scobee Education Center, San Antonio College, Texas, in 2017.
Posted inElementary to High School

From inner space to outer space, schools try new ways to help students explore

by Hechinger Report October 31, 2018April 8, 2021
Young voters
Posted inColumnists

Youth will determine the outcome of the 2018 midterms

Avatar photo by Andre Perry October 30, 2018February 14, 2024
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

OPINION: Motherhood and academia can — and should — mix

Avatar photo by Marybeth Gasman October 30, 2018April 8, 2021
Hunter Blair and his fiancée, Ronnie Kinsman, pose in the field behind their home on June 2, 2018, in Onalaska, Washington. The pair graduated from Onalaska High School in 2017 and 2016 respectively, and say they intend to settle down in their hometown. “It’s beautiful country up here,” Kinsman said. “Why leave something that we love?”
Posted inHigher Education, Map to the Middle Class, News, Rural Education

How one tiny town is battling ‘rural brain drain’

by Kaitlin Gillespie October 24, 2018November 17, 2022
Matthew Porter, a student at Craig High School, inspects a “collaborative” robot at Prent Corporation, in Janesville, Wisconsin.
Posted inNews

Convincing students that learning blue-collar job skills will pay off

Avatar photo by Caroline Preston October 23, 2018April 8, 2021
Classroom volunteer Aimee Menne helps teach one of the only computer science classes currently offered at San Francisco’s Mission High.
Posted inElementary to High School

Mississippi lags in computer science grads, teachers— but it has a plan to fix that

Avatar photo by Jackie Mader October 23, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education

As they lose customers, universities try expanding the menu

by APM Reports October 22, 2018April 8, 2021

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