How A Text Message Could Revolutionize Student Aid
Owen Phillips writes for the NPR Education Blog that a simple text message could be enough to nudge students to complete the dreaded FAFSA.
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Improving Accreditation Part I: What’s Wrong With the System?
As the gatekeeper to federal financial aid, the accreditation system is guaranteed to receive a lot of criticism for its decisions.
Higher Ed Data Bill Band-Aids Over Problems
Rep. Virginia Foxx’s proposed higher ed data bill won’t do enough to help students.
Except for Heald, Everything at Corinthian Should Go
To anyone looking to buy campuses of troubled Corinthian Colleges: if the school name doesn’t start with Heald” stay far, far away.
The Supreme Court Kicks Out the Ladder Under Home Healthcare Workers. Who鈥檚 Next?
Staying out of poverty just got harder for thousands of American home healthcare workers.
Why Corinthian College Students Will Be Better Off
Kevin Carey writes in The New York Times Upshot that students at the imminently bankrupt Corinthian Colleges will be better off.
Dear Secretary Duncan: Net Neutrality is an Education Issue
If comedian John Oliver can get the importance of net neutrality, then our U.S. Department of Education should too.
Americans Think We Have the World鈥檚 Best Colleges. We Don鈥檛.
国产视频’s Kevin Carey writes in the New York Times that standard views of the American higher education system exaggerate its strength.
For-Profits and Fin Aid: Accountability in Harkin’s Higher Ed Act Draft
If the accountability provisions of the Harkin bill had a slogan it would be 鈥渇ixing finances first.鈥
Higher Ed Data Plan Would Supersize Burden
The House and Senate education committees took a step forward on reauthorization of the Higher Ed Act, but with a high burden.