AI Risks Creating a ‘Demand Machine’ for Governments, Report Warns
Route Fifty covered RethinkAI’s piece on how artificial intelligence will increase demand for government services before it increases efficiency.
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The App Store Accountability Act Poses Serious Concerns for Privacy, Security, and Free Expression
Real Skills, Real Income: Why Youth Apprenticeship Is Resonating Now
The SAVE Act Is the Wrong Way to ‘Nationalize’ Elections. There’s a Better One.
New Data Reveals, For First Time, Each Colleges’ Share of Rich Kids
Trail-blazing study provides clearest picture we’ve ever had of the socioeconomic breakdown of individual colleges’ student bodies.
From the Archives: Predatory Lending at Sallie Mae
Here’s some helpful background for state attorneys general suing Sallie Mae for predatory lending
The “Skinny Budget” Starves Some Higher Ed Programs
The Trump Administration calls for a 13 percent cut to funding for the U.S. Department of Education and targeting some popular programs.
Lower Ed
A former insider discloses the story behind for-profit schools to explain the lose-lose options for Americans seeking a better life.
Willfully Blind
The GOP’s stance on for-profit higher education resembles the one it has taken on climate change—a refusal to accept the facts.
How the G.O.P. Became For-Profit College Abuse Deniers
Much like climate change, Republicans deny that there have been for-profit college abuses
Borrower Defense Rules Deserve Praise
Obama administration should be applauded for refusing to back down from rules that make it easier to provide relief to defrauded borrowers.
ITT Executives Have Only Themselves to Blame for the Company’s Demise
Multiple lawsuits show ITT officials harmed students, misled investors, and put the company on a crash course to financial collapse
Congress Should Take Lead in Battle over Financial Aid ‘Displacement’
Schools argue that they have a responsibility to give aid to the most in need, but is that really what they are doing?
The University of Phoenix Was Right: Forcing Students to Agree to Binding Arbitration is Unfair
In 2004, the University of Phoenix (UOP), the largest for-profit college in the country, took a principled stand on behalf of its students.