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The Martin Luther King Bridge, top, and Eads Bridge, bottom, connect East St. Louis with downtown St. Louis. Little of the economic boom that has transformed St. Louis has made it across the river.

Will turning schools into hubs for services help revive dying cities?

In East St. Louis, the school district is helping parents get back on their feet

Race and Equity

by  Emmanuel Felton  – June 26, 2018

OPINION: Why won’t schools partner with businesses?

How we hold teachers accountable to obsolete metrics

Future of Learning

by  Ted Dintersmith  – April 30, 2018

Microsoft employees in Redmond, Washington. With a huge shortage of college graduates in data and computer science, tech companies are taking matters into their own hands and providing education directly to prospective tech workers.

Impatient with universities’ slow pace of change, employers go around them

Tech companies are sidestepping the middleman and creating their own courses

Future of Learning

by  Jon Marcus  – December 18, 2017

Rural Education

Rural disaffection has helped to drive the nation’s politics. Yet little attention has been paid to the role of education in this. We examine rural K-12 and higher education through the stories of rural schools and students.
Members of the BizTech Challenge winning team (from left to right): Rashad Pierre, senior, business management major; Nathan Morrison, senior, mechanical engineering and supply chain management; Ashley Lewis, sophomore, electrical engineering; and Polite Stewart, Jr., senior, mechanical engineering and physics.

COLUMN: When a dollar and a dream isn’t enough

Venture capitalists must support black-run start-ups by going to where the black people are

Race and Equity

by  Andre Perry  – November 28, 2017

I got to choose private schools, but will vouchers really help other kids make it?

One of the first cities to embrace private school vouchers thinks not

Race and Equity

by  Emmanuel Felton  – July 10, 2017

Free courses may shake universities’ monopoly on credit

Just as the Internet has made news free and music cheap, it may be about to vastly lower the cost of one of the most expensive commodities in America: college.…

Higher Education

by  Jon Marcus  – January 23, 2012

For-profit teacher certification booming in Texas

Jeff Arrington in his disaster-response high school class in Denton, Texas. (Photo by Allison Smith/The Texas Tribune) DENTON, Texas — One afternoon in mid-November, Jeff Arrington scattered…

K-12

by  Nick Pandolfo  and  Morgan Smith  – November 28, 2011

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Q&A with Yujiro Hayashi: For each graduate, 20 job offers

Yujiro Hayashi, president of the Institute of National Colleges of Technology (Kosen) in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Blaine Harden) TOKYO—While on assignment in Japan recently, Blaine…

Higher Education

by  Hechinger Report  – November 23, 2011

Student profile: A technical education and a bright future

Soichiro Tsunakawa, 22, is a seventh-year student at the Tokyo National College of Technology. When he graduates next spring, he has a job waiting at Sony, where he…

Higher Education

by  Blaine Harden  – November 16, 2011

For-profit regulations released, reactions mixed

The Department of Education released its long-anticipated regulations for for-profit colleges Thursday. By 2015, if fewer than 35 percent of graduates of a school are repaying the principal on…

For-Profit Colleges

by  Hechinger Report  – June 2, 2011

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