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 [...]
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Additional SOTU Thoughts
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 [...]
Chart of the Day: A Simpler FAFSA
Just how much simpler is the new Federal Application for Federal Student Aid? This chart, which is taken from page 49 of the PDF of Federal Student Aid’s fiscal year 2009 report tells a pretty clear story:
Federal Student Aid’s Annual Report
Federal Student Aid (FSA), the office within the U.S. Department of Education that handles loans and grants, recently published its fiscal year 2009 report. This document provides a lot of interesting information about the general state of federal postsecondary assistance and also rates the office’s performance over the past year. It’s a fairly long document, [...]
Where Does the Aid Go?
In the past week I’ve had the occasion to do some quick research on a number of institutions that had students take out federal loans in the past academic year but do not show up in the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System—a U.S. Department of Education database with information on graduation rates, tuition, fees, and [...]
David Brooks on College Aid
Someday, David Brooks will write a tight, well-reasoned column on education policy, and we will praise it here on the Quick and the Ed.
Today is not that day.
In today’s NYTimes piece($), Brooks critiques a recent proposal to increase college financial aid from Hillary Clinton and the DLC, making the familiar Brooksian argument that it’s all [...]
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.