It was in the quiet of the summer when a new president at Louisiana State University said the school would lay off 25 administrators, including several who were high in …
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COLUMN: As careers, college and the workforce change rapidly, should high schools evolve? Help us find out
Evan Perez could be the face of a new movement. He’s a first-year student attending Babson College on a full scholarship, majoring in business with a concentration in entrepreneurship. He …
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Americans are turning against higher education. At least, that’s what many of them say. Only 31 percent of Americans now consider a college education “very important,” according to a Gallup …
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STUDENT VOICE: I turned down my dream college for a far more affordable state school. It still hurts
I fell in love with Tufts University as soon as I stepped on the campus right outside of Boston. I knew that financial aid was a huge concern, but I …
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Merging school districts was supposed to save taxpayers money. It didn’t, a 20-year study in Arkansas found
When Mike Huckabee was the Arkansas governor in 2004, he wanted government to be more efficient. He signed a law to shut down tiny school districts with fewer than 350 …
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OPINION: Higher education has a trust problem, and families are right to demand transparency and candor
This opinion piece is the first in a series on trust and transparency in higher education. Higher education runs on trust. A family commits four years and a significant sum …
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QUINCY, Mass. — Waist-high weeds climb through cracks in the tennis courts. Ivy snakes across the locked-shut entrance of a redbrick former women’s dormitory. Canada geese graze on the baseball …
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In an age of climate disaster, more states offer students a way to show they are ‘climate literate’
As a student at a high school not far from Denver’s main airport, Anthony Muñoz wondered whether the jet fuel from airplanes flying above his campus was harming living things. …
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Each year, the early childhood educators at Bluff’s Little Thinkers in western Iowa spend hundreds of dollars of their own money on classroom supplies and materials, including rugs for “cozy …
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TAYLORSVILLE, Utah — In an elementary school classroom just outside Salt Lake City, Clarence Ames warmed up an audience of 15 parents, their young children sitting beside them. “Has anybody …