Discussions of higher education quality almost always treat institutions monolithically. As such, we raise concerns about whether University of Phoenix students are well prepared or Clinton Hill Junior College’s student loan default rate as if every department and degree is the same. While it is easier to discuss colleges and universities as undifferentiated entities, doing [...]
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How Pell Will Avoid the Freeze
Last week, we had a couple of posts talking about how the Obama administration’s proposal to freeze most non-defense discretionary spending for three years could create trouble for Pell Grants, which often have costs that are hard to accurately estimate. But despite these initial fears, senior administration officials promised last week that Pell Grants would [...]
Additional SOTU Thoughts
Kevin already has his reactions to last night’s State of the Union up here, but here are a couple of other observations about the parts of the speech with a bearing on higher education.
Help for Borrowers
As expected, President Obama proposed improvements to the income-based repayment program (IBR) that will cap monthly payments at 10 [...]
FSA Annual Report: Cohort Default Rates
I already outlined a few interesting data tidbits that are in Federal Student Aid’s annual report (large PDF), but the report also has some information that is worth taking a closer look at in its own post. One of these areas is student loan default rates .
Loan default rates are one of the few federal [...]
2010 Budget
The Department of Education today released its 2010 budget. You can read the full thing or check out Alyson Klein’s first look. Things that I noticed:
the budget shifts money around reading and early childhood. It would cut Reading First state grants and Even Start while creating two new programs called “Title I early childhood grants” [...]
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.