Ben Miller, Policy Analyst

Posts by Ben Miller:

• The Latest on Student Aid Reform
• Adding Academics to the Big Dance
• Finding Savings in the Student Loan Bill
• How Did the Servicers Do?
• Student Loan Commentary (Cont.)
• More Misleading Student Loan Commentary
• The Other Guidance Counselor Role
• Open the Default Rate Black Box
• A Real Rainy Day and a More Complete Picture
• Take a Scalpel to Endowments
• Violating Incentives
• Student Loan Debt Collector Irony
• Can Reform Solve Federal Student Loan Conflicts of Interest?
• Don’t Forget the Students
• Some Additional Thoughts on the Budget
• How Pell Will Avoid the Freeze
• Additional SOTU Thoughts
• A Nice Borrower Win, Potential Pell Problems in Proposed SOTU Ideas
• Education Technology is Not About Gadgetry
• Putting a Face on School Lunch
• What do you get for 8 percent?
• Opaque Transparency
• There’s Always Money in the Banana Stand Higher Education
• A Light Breeze of Change for Flagships
• The Right Moves?
• Taking Down Diploma Mills
• False Choices in the Value of College
• It’s Hard to Shut Down Problem Schools When Congress Does Not Allow It
• Cohort Default Rates: FFEL vs. DL
• The Classroom Performance of College Football’s Elite Teams
• Semantics and For-Profits
• Cohort Default Rates: Putting For-Profits In Perspective
• Cohort Default Rates: Who Changed the Most?
• Cohort Default Rates: Who Could Be Punished and Who Should Be Thanking Lobbyists?
• Cohort Default Rates: Bad News All Around, Worse at For-Profits
• Cohort Default Rates: An Introduction
• Fuzzy Math on FIPSE Earmarks
• How the Office Got Financial Aid Policy Right
• Higher Ed By the Numbers
• The Death Penalty Theory of Student Loan Repayment
• The Indebted Graduates of 2008
• A Bad Buyout
• FSA Annual Report: Cohort Default Rates
• Chart of the Day: A Simpler FAFSA
• Federal Student Aid’s Annual Report
• Where Does the Aid Go?
• Student Loan Reform is About More Than Cost Savings
• Student Loan Jobs
• A New Higher Ed Data Site
• The Merits of Culinary School
• The Private Loan and For-Profit School Partnership
• Maryland Limits Public Higher Ed for In-State Students
• Don’t Let Colleges Off the Hook with Net Price
• A Lone Student Voice Publicly Opposed to SAFRA
• Brown Shows Why Tuition Charges Are Worse than Taxes
• The Limits of Financial Aid Policies
• Student Loan Debt and Cohort Default Rates at For-Profit Institutions
• Stifling Innovation in the Name of Nonprofit Servicers
• Higher Education Earmarks at Work
• House Passes Student Loan Bill
• Happy National Higher Education Standards Day
• Chairman Miller on SAFRA
• UPDATED: SAFRA Amendments
• Wall Street Journal Continues Quest to Write Bad Editorials About Student Loans
• Why CBO Says Pell Grants Will Cost More
• How Universities in the Peach State Benefit From Plastic
• More on PLUS Denials
• Do PLUS Denials Help Private Loan Borrowing?
• All Athlete, No Student
• Play Hard and Graduate?
• Reforms Will Shrink, But Not Eliminate, Private Student Lending
• Internal Consistency
• A Closer Look at Schools’ Opinions on Perkins Loans
• On What Planet Does the WSJ Editorial Board Spend Most of Its Time?
• UPDATED: Two Easy Ways to Link Private and Perkins Loans
• Don’t Add a Bailout to a Bailout
• Unconstrained by Reality
• Who Gains From the Perkins Loan Low Tuition Incentive Formula?
• House vs. Senate Higher Ed Earmarks
• One Way to Recover Endowment Losses
• 9.5 Scandal Makes its Way to Sallie Mae
• Taking Your College to Court
• Pork Projects in the House
• Not All Higher Education Spending is Created Equal
• About CBO’s Alternative Student Loan Cost Estimate
• What the Princeton Review Rankings Miss