The National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators has a great post up this morning highlighting the status and predicted content of the joint health care/student loan bill that is now working its way through Congress. It also has this really helpful chart to plot the progress of the legislation:
While progress on the bill is [...]
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Finding Savings in the Student Loan Bill
It appears now that the student loan bill could possibly maybe potentially* be paired with some health care legislation in such a way that it could pass the Senate with 51 votes and no risk of a filibuster.
But there’s a small hangup. As part of an agreement to include the student loan package in the [...]
Higher Ed By the Numbers
There’s been a lot of different higher education things going on lately, so here’s a few figures to consider:
80 Score out of 100 given to the Direct Loan servicing in 2008 on a test of customer satisfaction given by CFI Group. (Scores represent satisfaction, satisfaction relative to expectations, and satisfaction relative to ideal service.)
71 Comparable [...]
Student Loan Reform is About More Than Cost Savings
With health care reform’s progress making a tortoise look like Usain Bolt (Saturday’s vote notwithstanding), efforts to reform the federal student loan programs have been more or less stuck in a holding pattern for the last seven weeks. Such inaction has provided time for new ideas and proposals to emerge and for those opposed to [...]
Poll Shows Americans Completely Misunderstand, But Are Nontheless Angry About, the Federal Education Budget
The National School Boards Association recently released the results of a new poll focused on federal education spending. I’m a big, big supporter of increased federal support for education. But–NSBA press release to the contrary–the poll results say very little that’s useful or new. The release said:
As members of Congress prepare to head home for [...]
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
03/19/10 | Ben Miller is quoted on college graduation rates and the NCAA Tournament in the Detroit Free Press.
03/19/10 | Linda Perlstein links to Education Sector's "College- and Career-Ready" event.
03/17/10 | Ben Miller's column on graduation rates and NCAA Tournament eligibility is mentioned on The Wall Street Journal's The Daily Fix.
03/17/10 | Kevin Carey's critique of Diane Ravitch's latest book is quoted in Doublethink's Conventional Folly blog.
03/15/10 | Ben Miller pens an op-ed for US News & World Report on using graduation rates to determine NCAA Tournament eligibility.