Adam Harris
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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Sean Ramsey / Reuters Cosby’s Honorary Degree Is the First Yale Has Rescinded in 300-Plus Years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.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Why Would the Government Stop States From Helping Student Borrowers?
Massachusetts, Maine, and others want to police companies that collect loan payments. The Department of Education says they can't.
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Bettmann / Getty The Curse of Being a Highly Selective College
Elite universities’ secretive, subjective admissions processes attract scrutiny—and lately, federal investigations.
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Jim Young / Reuters When a College Employee Shoots a Student
Armed security forces have been standard on campuses for several decades. Is that too big a risk?
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Andrew Harnik / AP How the Howard University Protests Hint at the Future of Campus Politics
Students’ weeklong occupation of an administrative building may be a harbinger of tenacious pushback at other colleges.
