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
Higher Education Earmarks at Work
The end of the federal fiscal year is coming up in a little over a week, which means Congress theoretically finish up its spending bills for 2010 fiscal year. Part of that work will entail sorting out which pork projects will get funded through earmarks in the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), [...]
House vs. Senate Higher Ed Earmarks
Are the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives heading for a fight over higher ed earmarks in their 2010 appropriations bills? The earmark figures in both bills indicate yes. But don’t be fooled. The lack of overlap between funding priorities means the level of postsecondary pork is only likely to grow.
All told, the Senate bill [...]
Pork Projects in the House
This week, the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee followed on the heels of the House of Representatives by passing its version of a bill that sets funding levels for Department of Education programs in the 2010 fiscal year. Included within this legislation will be the first figures for earmarks given to specific colleges and universities within [...]
FIPSE, Failure, Fraud
The United States of America spends something like $400 billion per year on post-secondary education. That’s a lot of money. Yet we don’t know as much about the higher education sector as we could, or should. While Clemson has justifiably taken heat for cynically manipulating the class size component of the U.S. News rankings, few [...]
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's False Fronts paper is quoted on Accuracy in Academia.
03/09/10 | Ben Miller is quoted on Federal Family Education Loan defaults on The Huffington Post.
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.