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Dec 11

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Some teachers trapped by debt get Education Department help

The idea of the TEACH Grant program was simple: Teachers got a grant to pay for college or graduate school, and in exchange they agreed to teach for four years where they're needed. But an investigation by NPR found that…

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Nov 30

How colleges are adapting to the decline in liberal arts majors

By Ben Felder, Education Writers Association

The decline in liberal arts enrollment has forced many colleges to eliminate courses and, in some cases, entire majors.

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Nov 27

DeVos warns of crisis over ballooning student debt

By Collin Binkley, Associated Press

The education secretary raised a "red warning flag" at a conference in Atlanta on Tuesday, that the federal government must change the way it gives out student loans.

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Nov 25

Opinion: Virtual reality tours give rural students a glimpse of college life

By Carol Cutler White, The Conversation

A federally funded program is trying to increase high school graduation, college readiness and college enrollment at low resource high schools.

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Nov 16

Non-degree ‘badges’ are booming. Are they really useful?

By Matt Krupnick, The Hechinger Report

While there has generally been consensus about what a college degree represents, there’s confusion over how to define many of these new credentials and judge their usefulness for employers and job seekers.

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Nov 02

Watch 5:34
Could Harvard discrimination case change college admissions nationwide?

The Harvard admissions trial in Boston concluded Friday and it could have implications for affirmative action nationwide. The case alleges that qualified Asian-American applicants were denied admission because Harvard used other, non-academic measures to keep their numbers down. William Brangham…

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Nov 02

Opinion: The false narrative driving the Harvard affirmative action case

By Natasha K. Warikoo

Social science has shown us that when a group perceives a decline in status, economic or otherwise, they are likely to accept narratives that blame a different group — often a stigmatized one — for that decline.

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Nov 01

Watch 6:30
Why did it take so long for the University of Maryland to fire its football coach?

It’s been a chaotic few days for the University of Maryland football program. In the fallout since the June death of player Jordan McNair, who became overheated during a practice, the school’s football coach, DJ Durkin, was placed on administrative…

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Oct 30

Watch 7:06
Where support for college students is ‘high-tech, high-touch’

By Hari Sreenivasan, Merrill Schwerin

Florida is one of 35 states that tie college funding to graduation rates. But a new study,“The Pell Divide,” finds a difference in graduation rates between students who receive funding assistance from Pell Grants and those who don’t. Hari Sreenivasan…

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Oct 30

Billions in Pell Grants go to students who aren’t graduating, new data shows

By Jon Marcus, The Hechinger Report

Taxpayers have spent more than $325 billion in the last decade on Pell Grants meant to help low-income students graduate, but only half of Pell recipients at four-year universities and colleges graduated within six years, new data show. It’s the…

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