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Charles Dharapak / AP What If the Answer Isn't College but Longer High School?
Students attend P-Tech programs in New York for six years. They can leave with a high-school diploma, an associate’s degree, and a chance to work for IBM.
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Visual3Dfocus/shutterstock 10 Ways to Afford College
From Christian outreach to lottery-funded tuition, educators and politicians—and the occasional business executive—are trying to ease the costs.
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Tom Mihalek / Reuters A High School Where College Is Not the Goal
At Randolph Technical High School in Philadelphia, students are learning about carpentry, culinary arts, and auto repair. Has the system given up on them, or has it saved them?
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MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images A High School That’s Also a College
In Brooklyn, disadvantaged teenagers can earn an associate’s degree, tuition-free, and wind up with a job at IBM.
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Paul Sancya / AP The Power of Public Housing
“The story of American public housing is one of quiet successes drowned out by loud failures,” writes the historian Ed Goetz.
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Albert Gea / Reuters A Bleak Future for Renters
America’s housing crisis will likely worsen during the next decade with millions more struggling to make monthly payments.
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Petar Kujundzic / Reuters Should Congress Let Wealthy Foreigners Buy Green Cards?
Each year, America grants green cards to 10,000 rich investors, the vast majority of whom are Chinese. Is this program creating enough jobs to warrant its continuation?
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John Gress / Reuters The Online College That Credits Life Experience
Competency-based learning measures knowledge, not time.
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Frank Franklin II / AP Is It Time for a Civil-Rights Movement for the Poor?
One scholar makes the argument that the nation needs a massive, grassroots push for policies that will make the American Dream a reality for all.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Who Should Pay for Prison Beds?
A new report suggests that using economic incentives may help deter judges and prosecutors from embracing harsh sentences.
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The Student-Debt Crisis Isn’t What You Think
Most of the defaults occur among students at community colleges or for-profit schools.
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Jessica Rinaldi / Reuters America’s Poverty Problem Hasn’t Changed
The only thing that has is one of the ways the Census Bureau chooses to measure it.
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Elijah Nouvelage / Reuters What Incarceration Costs American Families
A new report finds that loved ones bear the financial brunt of criminal-justice policies.
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Turning Life Experience into Sheepskin
“Competency-based” education gives students credit for what they have already learned.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters The Empty Promises of For-Profit Colleges
In the past 15 years, students at schools such as Corinthian and University of Phoenix have taken out loans at drastically higher rates. What are they getting for their money?
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Stephen Lam / Reuters Is Prohibition a Good Idea After All?
Bethel, Alaska, is debating whether decades of restrictions on alcohol have caused more problems than they’ve solved.
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Larry Downing / Reuters Community College Doesn't Have to Be the Endgame
Two schools are trying to shift the stigma of two-year colleges by making an associate’s an affordable pathway to a four-year degree.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Why Do America's Poor Oppose a Redistribution of Wealth?
As inequality spreads, one would think that support for sharing economic gains would increase. So why is it fading?
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Jim MacMillan / AP The Dangers of Visible Inequality
A new study shows that the wealthy are less benevolent when they know just how poor their neighbors are.
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Jose Manuel Ribeiro / Reuters Entrepreneurship: Increasingly, the Province of the Wealthy
Starting a business used to be a good way to secure a middle-class life. That may be less true now.
