On Tuesday I walked up L Street to the Cato Institute for a debate about spiraling tuition and the role of the federal government in higher education. As you might imagine, I was on the “there should be one!” side of the argument whereas Neal McCluskey from Cato took the “everything will be fine if [...]
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Wasting Financial Aid on Rich People
The Brookings Institution held an event this afternoon focused on Crossing the Finish Line. It was a good discussion; Bill Bowen in particular did a great job of describing the book’s findings. In addition to the under-match / over-match / affirmative action stuff that I wrote about last week, there were also important findings about [...]
Who Gains From the Perkins Loan Low Tuition Incentive Formula?
Contained within the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act (PDF) is a proposal to reform the Perkins loan program by increasing its funding to $6 billion and distributing this money through three separate formulas. According to the legislation, one-quarter of this funding, or $1.5 billion, would be given to schools through a new low tuition [...]
No Frills (Including Fact Checkers)
Newspapers are hard hit during these financial times. They’re simultaneously cutting staff and raising workloads, so I can understand if a few stories go uncovered. But apparently they’re cutting back on fact checkers, too, at least at the Christian Science Monitor. Here’s a quote from an article yesterday on no-frills higher education:
A main factor driving [...]
Van Milder
If you’re a policymaker looking at how long it takes college students to graduate these days and you know that educating upperclassmen costs more than educating freshmen and sophomores (the former take smaller classes and use more campus resources), you might think it would be a good idea to penalize students who take more than [...]
Missing the Big Picture
The Post went on the front page this morning with news of how the credit crunch is making student loans less available and more expensive. One student explained the consequences:
Andrew Helms, 24, a master’s student in Arab studies at Georgetown, said he had to take out $50,000 in loans to cover the first of his [...]
The Ivy League Just Keeps Getting Greener
But not the trendy, Al Gore kind of green—the old-fashioned, John D. Rockefeller kind of green.
I received an email this morning from Stanford University announcing that it (like Harvard, Princeton, etc.) will be expanding its financial aid program. Now a family with an income of less than $100,000 will not need to pay tuition, and [...]
Nixon Returns
Congress is currently working on a new version of the federal Higher Education Act, and the issue of rising college costs is predictably front-and-center. As Scott Jaschik reports today at InsideHigherEd, politicians on both sides of the aisle seem to like the idea of a federal “watch list” comprised of those colleges and universities that [...]
Buy Now! College On Sale!
I couldn’t resist noting the synchronicity of today’s front-page New York Times article, “In Tuition Game, Popularity Rises with Price” and the Chart You Can Trust we released today. The New York Times piece did a good job of getting at the red flags of tuition discounting—merit aid going to well-off students, the increasing uniformity [...]
Lowering Student Loan Default Rates: What One Consortium of Historically Black Institutions Did to Succeed 
College and Career-Ready: Using Outcomes Data to Hold High Schools Accountable for Student Success
03/11/10 | Kevin Carey is quoted on the rising costs of education in The Economist.
03/10/10 | Chad Aldeman Aldeman's False Fronts is quoted on Accuracy in Academia.
03/09/10 | Ben Miller is quoted on loan origination on the Firedog Lake blog.
03/07/10 | Kevin Carey calls for a Race to the Top in higher education in a column in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
03/08/10 | Andrew Rotherham's Eduwonk post on RTT finalists is quoted on Class Struggle.
03/07/10 | Andrew Rotherham is quoted on the success of MATCH in The Times-Picayune.
03/06/10 | Eduwonk's reaction to Ohio's status as a RTT finalist is cited in a Wall Street Journal editorial.
03/05/10 | Andrew Rotherham's reaction to New York's status as a Race to the Top finalist is cited on National Journal.