It’s really hard to be a banker these days. They’re coming close to surpassing lobbyists as the easiest target point for political zingers, and blaming bankers for the demise of the U.S. economy is quickly becoming a favorite pastime.
I have some banker friends – who, by the way, are definitely not evil – so I [...]
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QUICK Hits: YouTube Edition
In the Olden Days, students took their protests to the streets — today do they just take to YouTube? (CAP)
How do you subtract three-digit numbers? It’s not easy if you’ve taken New Math. (Tom Lehrer)
Is New Haven ever this sunny? (Yale University)
Can anyone — even grumps who don’t like Beyonce — watch this without smiling? (Hope [...]
Assault on Online Learning? Not Really.
“A largely unnoticed assault upon the nation’s vibrant market in online learning” is how Rick Hess, writing for the National Review Online, characterizes the Obama Administration’s proposal to spend $500 million over ten years to develop online high school and college courses. Hess argues that there is already a robust private market and invokes the [...]
A Lone Student Voice Publicly Opposed to SAFRA
Earlier this week, a group of student loan companies and servicers launched Protect Student Choice, a campaign that is lobbying against the bill that would end subsidies for private lenders in the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) Program and use those savings to increase the Pell Grant for low-income students. Based upon the list of [...]
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 [...]
A Monopoly for Non-Profit Lenders
SAFRA, the latest acronym in financial aid, refers to the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act – a large and ambitious piece of legislation released in the House this week. The legislation follows President Obama’s budget proposal to move all future federal student loans to the Direct Loan Program, eliminating private loan companies from the [...]
A Monopoly for Non-Profit Lenders
SAFRA, the latest acronym in financial aid, refers to the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act – a large and ambitious piece of legislation released in the House this week. The legislation follows President Obama’s budget proposal to move all future federal student loans to the Direct Loan Program, eliminating private loan companies from the [...]
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.