An Imperfect Solution to Toppling Student Loans
In May, Jenny Cooke graduated from the George Washington University (the most expensive university in the nation) with a degree in nonprofit management and a job at the Association of Air Medical...
View ArticleThe State of Student Loans
In his State of the Union speech last night, President Obama took on the topic of steep student loans, touching on an issue Miller-McCune looked at earlier this week. He urged the Senate to pass a bill...
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Should Uncle Sam Attend For-Profit Schools?
The late-night infomercial time slot is typically reserved for products people later regret buying — ab rollers, Ginsu knife sets, bad classic-rock compilations. Higher education hardly seems to fit....
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The Three-Year Engagement: 25 Percent Off College Term
Morning Edition. MacBooks. Golden retrievers. Kale. Few things are so unimpeachable among Americans of a certain, shall we say, sensibility as a four-year college education. Why waste the best years of...
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In Rankings Race, Colleges Giving Low-Income Students Less Aid Than Better...
Low-income students are increasingly bypassed when colleges offer applicants financial aid, as schools compete for wealthier students who can afford rising tuition and fees, according to a public...
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CERTAINTYOFHOPELESSNESS.COM A 21st-century update of Swiftian political pamphlets of yore, this PDF offers a mix of practical and absurd options that America’s growing legion of deeply indebted...
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The Student Debt Explosion
THE STUDENT DEBT PROBLEM Student debt, as this Bloomberg Businessweek figure highlights, is big and fast growing. The vertical bars represent the percent of Americans who have graduated from college...
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It Is Possible to Graduate From a for-Profit College
For-profit colleges face a lot of grief these days, as a bit of heavy handed satire set at Doonesbury’s Walden College highlighted last year: Dean: We’re now down to 18 percent of students graduating...
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Investing in Human Capital, Literally
Richard Frethorne was just a young man in England looking for a way to get ahead, to make a name for himself. There was a lot happening—society was changing, new industries were opening up. But...
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We All Stand to Lose as Parents Struggle to Repay College Loans for Their...
Parents are increasingly struggling to repay federal loans they’ve taken out to help cover their children’s college costs, according to newly released federal data. The Parent Plus program allows...
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