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Sometimes the best journalism grows from working together. This week, in partnership with CalMatters and NBC News, we bring you the story of how California is taking on some of higher education’s most intractable problems.
How is the state getting more students to and through college at a time of changing populations and ever-rising tuition? What are the stumbling blocks, what’s working, and is there a way forward for the rest of the country? These are just some of the questions we attempt to ask – and answer. Tell us what you want to learn about. Just hit reply to this email to talk directly with us.
Liz Willen, Editor
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California, with a higher education budget for 2019-2020 of $18.5 billion, is bucking a national trend — most other states are continuing to reduce, not increase, their higher education budgets.
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Only 3 percent of early ed teachers are male. Here’s how to change that.
Instead of a grilling, ask students what they've learned about what the world needs — and then pass the sweet potatoes.
As the artificial intelligence revolution comes to education, teachers are rightly concerned that AI in schools will replace the human assessment of human learning.
This fall, 1.2 million low-income or first-generation students started college. For most of their lives, they’ve been told that a college degree will set them on a path to economic mobility, and they have arrived on their campuses filled with a sense of possibility.
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