The Hechinger Report Charlotte West December 10, 2021 Urban and rural students alike struggle to find reliable ways to get to and from campuses When 18-year-old Ernesto Rubio graduated from high school in June, he knew what he wanted to do next: take a summer class in the basics of becoming an emergency medical technician, […]
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Inside Sources Michael Graham December 10, 2021 A spending proposal in President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan would deny funding for students who choose to attend private-sector career colleges, rather than public community colleges. It’s a burden that would disproportionately fall on veterans, older students, and people of color. “We think it’s unfair and […]
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Higher Ed Dive Natalie Schwartz December 3, 2021 Dive Brief: Just 2% of students who graduated from high school in 2020 and didn’t immediately attend college ended up enrolling a year later this fall, dashing hopes that the large number of students who opted out of higher ed in the pandemic’s first year would enroll in […]
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Inside Higher Ed Alexis Gravely December 3, 2021 Several higher education policy experts with differing views on the value of for-profit institutions came together to develop a set of policy recommendations for holding for-profit institutions accountable in a recent report from Opportunity America. “Like too many issues in education, the question of how to regulate for-profit colleges […]
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