Social Security and Unpaid Student Loans: What the Feds Won’t Tell You
155,000 people last year had their Social Security checks docked to pay off a delinquent student loan.
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Jennifer Lawrence and the Sins of Animal House
Animal House instructed two generations of students that college was all about getting drunk and committing disgusting acts of perversion.
Public Service Loan Forgiveness: Big Benefits, Bad Incentives
Critics aren’t happy with inequalities in graduate degree programs like public service being subsidized by the government.
Fixing the finances, not the structure, of student loan servicing [UPDATED]
It pays to keep borrowers current and happy.
College Failures Have Left Graduates Economically Adrift
Kevin Carey writes in The New York Times about the economic price of an ineffective college education.
Transfer Students Are Losing Time and Money
Almost 40 percent of students who transfer college lose their earned credits–a fact with big implications for state and federal policy.
What Makes Charter Schools Work?
How Unnecessary Data Reporting Requirements Turned a $44 Theft into a $10,000 Federal Headache
Ben Miller writes in Roll Call that removing some reporting requirements for on-campus crime could leave more time to tackle other issues.
A Fiscal Reckoning for Oregon’s “Pay It Forward”
It levied a graduate tax on anyone who used public higher education and then earmarked those revenues right back to funding more higher ed.
A Case of Mistaken Identity: The New York Times Mixes up Higher Education and Workforce Development
The article shows just how confusing our education and training policies can be.