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College Student Debt Increases

Student Debt and the Class of 2009 The Project on Student Debt This report, fifth in an annual series that examines cumulative...

For-profit schools lobby to avoid proposed federal aid rule

For-profit colleges and trade schools have launched a high-priced campaign against Obama administration reforms to for-profits’ access to federal aid, the Washington...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

The Case for New, Year-Round Job Creation Strategies

By Andrew Sum and Ishwar Khatiwada During early September, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its findings on the state of...

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Help Minorities Succeed in STEM Education

Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation: America’s Science and Technology Talent at the Crossroads National Academies Although minorities are the fastest-growing subset of the...

Waiting for Superman: An Education Rescue, or a Hit Job?

By Patrick Boyle Waiting for Superman, the 100-minute diatribe about the failures of American public education, has won praise from as high...

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Georgia Bans Illegal Immigrants at Top State Universities

The governing body for Georgia’s state colleges and universities banned illegal immigrants from attending the most selective state schools, as several other...

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Tax Credit Makes College More Affordable

The American Opportunity Tax CreditU.S. Department of the Treasury A tax credit enacted as part of the federal economic recovery act in...

GAO Urges Crackdown on College Recruitment Violations

Stronger Federal Oversight Needed to Enforce Ban on Incentive Payments to School Recruiters U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) The federal government has...

Building a Path to College Success

By Kati Haycock Thirty years ago, the average American could still earn a middle-class wage with only a high school education. But...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

White House Hosts Community College Summit

President Barack Obama on Tuesday ripped into what he said are Republican plans to trim funding for education by 20 percent to...

Federal Student Aid Strategic Plan FY 2011-15

U.S. Department of Education Federal Student Aid, a division of the Department of Education, has developed five strategic goals to be implemented...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

College Loan Defaults Rise

More people are defaulting on their student loans, as college graduates find it harder to get jobs, the U.S. Education Department reported...

Guest Opinion Essay

Reconnecting Youths Without Diplomas

An avalanche of important attention has been paid to America’s dropout crisis – the reasons for it and how to reverse it....

Guest Opinion Essay

No Reform Without Education

The recent defeat at the polls of Washington, D.C., Mayor Adrian Fenty demonstrates an important fact that philanthropists and school reformers have...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

HHS to Tighten Head Start Standards

The Department of Health and Human Services, expanding the Obama administration’s policy of making federal programs prove they are effective, has announced...

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U.S. Dropout Guru

Asked how he finds time to research poor-performing schools, advocate for policy reform, operate his own built-from-scratch high school and oversee the...

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‘Hope Springs Eternal,’ according to Gallup Poll

It is one thing for the poet Alexander Pope to suggest that “hope springs eternal in the human breast.” It is another...

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Can Companies Save the World?

When I consider the role the private sector plays in addressing educational and social service needs in society, I vacillate between whether...

Book Reviews

College on the Cheap

Debt-Free U By Zac BissonnettePortfolio Trade304 pages If American higher education is about to get its comeuppance, as many experts are predicting,...

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