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$15,000 in Student Debt and Counting By Michael Kirby Smith and Poh Si Teng (The New York Times - Video)
A College Education in Prison Opens Unexpected Path to Freedom By Vanessa Rancaño (KQED)
A record number of colleges drop SAT/ACT admissions requirement amid growing disenchantment with standardized tests By Valerie Strauss (The Washington Post)
A Simple Equation: More Education = More Income By Eduardo Porter (The New York Times)
Adult Education: Adding Up the Cost of Low Literacy Among Adults By Kavitha Cardoza (NPR)
America’s Great Working-Class Colleges By David Leonhardt (The New York Times)
California community college students will be guaranteed admission to UC — if they meet requirements By Nanette Asimov (SF Gate)
California's Upward-Mobility Machine By David Leonhardt (The New York Times)
College Has Gotten 12 Times More Expensive in One Generation By Katie Rose Quandt (Mother Jones)
College Inc. (PBS: Frontline)
Essential Learning Outcomes (AAC&U)
Faculty Not On Tenure Track Rises Steadily Over Past 4 Decades (NPR)
Five Things to Know About the Dire State of Student Debt in America By Matthew Zeitlin (BuzzFeed)
Here's How 2 Schools Have Made Free College Work — For Decades By Jeff Tyler (NPR)
How a For-Profit College Targeted the Homeless and Kids With Low Self-Esteem By Annie Waldman (ProPublica)
How these humanities graduates are finding jobs in Silicon Valley By Jeffrey Brown (PBS NewsHour)
Inside California Education: Community Colleges
Interview: Barmak Nassirian (PBS: Frontline)
Is College Worth It? Clearly, New Data Says By David Leonhardt (The New York Times)
Make Colleges Diverse By David Leonhardt (The New York Times)
My Husband And I Thought Education Was A Way Out Of Poverty. Now We’re $718,000 In Debt. By Rachel Bevel (HuffPost)
Need 3 Quick Credits to Play Ball? Call Western Oklahoma. By Brad Wolverton (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
New Jersey’s Student Loan Program is ‘State-Sanctioned Loan-Sharking’ By Annie Waldman (ProPublic)
One Year of Prison Costs More Than One Year at Princeton
Part-Time Professors Demand Higher Pay; Will Colleges Listen? By Claudio Sanchez (NPR)
PrecariCorps: Agents for Higher Ed
Student Loan Borrowers With Disabilities Aren't Getting Help They Were Promised By Clare Lombardo and Cory Turner (NPR)
Student Loan Debt Series (Here & Now)
The Absurdity of College Admissions By Alia Wong (The Atlantic)
The Creeping Capitalist Takeover of Higher Education By Kevin Carey (HuffPost)
The Days May Be Numbered For Corinthian Colleges' Accreditor By Kirk Carapezza (NPR)
These Are The People Struggling The Most To Pay Back Student Loans By Elissa Nadworny (NPR)
What Really Happened At The School Where Every Graduate Got Into College By Kate McGee (NPR)
Where and Who the College Graduates Are
Who Gets to Graduate? By Paul Tough (The New York Times)
Who Got Rich Off the Student Debt Crisis By James B. Steele and Lance Williams (Reveal)
Who Really Profits From For-Profit Colleges? By Sarah Barrett (Latino USA)
Why Aid for College Is Missing the Mark By Eduardo Porter (The New York Times)