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Kirn Vintage Stock / Getty White College Graduates Are Doing Great With Their Parents' Money
Higher education alone can't bridge the wealth gap that separates black Americans from their white peers.
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Seth Wenig / AP Yet Another Way Student Debt Keeps People from Buying Homes
The financial constraints of major student loans make it harder for hundreds of thousands of Americans to buy their first homes. But so does a small technicality—one that the Federal Housing Administration could fix.
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Mark Humphrey/AP The Era of Affirmative Action May Not Last Much Longer
Two pieces of recent news signal a future in which America’s colleges and universities are even whiter than they are today.
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Fabian Bimmer / Reuters The College-Graduation Problem All States Have
Across the country, black and Latino adults are far less likely to hold a college degree than white adults. Can better support for colleges that serve a high percentage of minorities change that?
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Ian Waldie / Getty 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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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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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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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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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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Willy Sanjuan / Invision/ AP Oprah to Graduates: Vote! Vote! Vote!
But they probably won't be voting for her.
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Nick Ut / AP Single Moms in College Spend 9 Hours a Day on Housework
A new report details how this demographic divvies up their time, and it doesn’t look relaxing.
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Adam Harris / The Atlantic American Politics Are a Nightmare for Catholic Universities
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos's address at Ave Maria University last weekend reignited a debate about the proper role of a Catholic school in a sharply divided time.
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Sean Ramsey / Reuters Cosby’s Honorary Degree Is the First Yale Has Rescinded in 300-Plus Years
The decision highlights the pressure on universities to signal that they’re taking the issue of sexual abuse on campus seriously.
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Eric Risberg / AP The University of California Stands Out Among Top Schools When It Comes to Serving Poor Students
A new report shows that most colleges are failing when it comes to graduating low-income students, but the UC system is an exception.
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Adrees Latif / Reuters Women in Prison Take Home Economics, While Men Take Carpentry
Decades after a government report on deep inequity in the vocational offerings of the nation's criminal-justice system, little has changed.
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Maciej Toporowicz, NYC / Getty The Undoing of an Online Student-Loan 'Expert'
The saga of Drew Cloud reveals just how badly those with debt want reliable information.
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Mark Makela / Getty When Calling the Police Is a Privilege
Getting the authorities involved is more dangerous for black Americans—which is why they do it less.
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Robert F. Bukaty / AP When Disadvantaged Students Overlook Elite Colleges
Many poor, minority high-schoolers don’t apply to top institutions even though they could get in—a decision that can have lasting consequences.
