The Confusing Information Colleges Provide Students About Financial Aid
Families need clarity when it comes to figuring out how much higher education is going to cost them. Unfortunately, that's not what they're getting.
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Corey Brickley The Third Education Revolution
Schools are moving toward a model of continuous, lifelong learning in order to meet the needs of today’s economy.
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Danny Moloshok / Reuters Mitch Daniels Urges Graduates to Resist Tribalism
The former Indiana governor, who leads Purdue University, believes that the hostility Americans are now showing one another is a threat to democracy.
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Ross D. Franklin / AP DeVos Says There’s One Thing Her School-Safety Commission Won't Be Studying: Guns
The education secretary told senators that the group isn’t tasked with studying the role of firearms in campus violence.
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Ariana Cubillos / AP The Rapid Retraction of a School-Shooting Video Game
… and what it says about gun violence in America today
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Wang Zhao / AFP / Getty Here’s How Higher Education Dies
A futurist says the industry may have nowhere to go but down. What does the slide look like?
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Loren Elliott / Reuters The Trump Administration's Approach to School Violence Is More Style Than Substance
Despite several White House events related to campus massacres this week, the president and his team did little to assure Americans that there are serious policy changes under way.
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Mike Blake / Reuters Why Walmart Is Paying for Its Employees to Go to College
Subsidizing workers’ tuition is a good marketing move—and it should also help with the retail giant’s abysmal retention rate.
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Adria Malcolm Colleges Are No Match for American Poverty
Amarillo College, in Texas, is working hard to accommodate low-income students—but it can only do so much.
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AP The Forgotten Girls Who Led the School-Desegregation Movement
Before the 9-year-old Linda Brown became the lead plaintiff in Brown v. Board of Education, a generation of black girls and teens led the charge against the “separate but equal” doctrine in public schools.
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J. Walter Green / AP The Radical Supreme Court Decision That America Forgot
In Green v. New Kent County, the Court saw school desegregation as a reparative process—likely the closest thing to reparations that the American judicial system has ever endorsed.
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Mike Segar / Reuters A Civil-Rights Icon Urges Law Grads to Defend Free Speech
Eleanor Holmes Norton used a commencement address at Georgetown to argue that securing positive, lasting change in America requires letting all sides have their say.
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Bryan Woolston / AP The GOP’s Public-Education Dilemma
A conservative teacher’s surprise victory in the Kentucky legislature indicates that rural voters expect more from the party that presents itself as their champion.
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Charles Mostoller / Reuters The Two Most Important College-Admissions Criteria Now Mean Less
When so many students have outstanding grades and test scores, schools have to get creative about triaging applicants.
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Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters In Praise of Civility
Without respectful discourse, free speech isn’t much more than a hostile shouting match.
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Thomas Lohnes / Getty The Schools That Are Bringing Poor Kids Into the Middle Class
Strategies for recruiting and retaining low-income students aren’t particularly novel, though they can be tough to implement at scale.
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Jae C. Hong / AP An Unusual Idea for Fixing School Segregation
What if the answer lies in changing how college admissions work?
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Charlie Neibergall / AP Arne Duncan Is Serious: Americans Should Boycott School
The former education secretary thinks parents need to take radical action to change the country's gun laws.
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Charles Mostoller / Reuters The Higher Education Nearly All Americans Love
Despite news reports that Republicans are generally skeptical of college, there are certain programs and institutions that they are quite warm to.
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Harris County Sheriff's Office / Reuters A World Where School Shootings Feel Inevitable
“It’s been happening everywhere. I've always kind of felt like eventually it was going to happen here, too.”
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Pete Ryan Should Businesses Help Employees Pay Off Their Student Loans?
There’s no tax advantage, and it’s not easy, but some employers are offering loan-repayment as a benefit.
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Allison Zaucha The Radical Self-Reliance of Black Homeschooling
Some black parents see teaching their own children as a way of protecting them from the racial disparities of the American education system.
