When Higher Ed Doesn’t Deliver: A Case Study of Medical-Assistant Programs
Medical-assistant programs often produce graduates with few well-paying job prospects and significant amounts of student debt.
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Was There a Student Loan Crisis in 2006?
What happens if you put the federal student loan portfolio of 2006 side-by-side with the portfolio today?
Who’s Not Repaying Student Loans? More People Than You Think
Even as the media touts a decline in defaults, in reality, many more people failing to make a student loan payment than 13.7 percent.
Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card for Some Colleges with High Default Rates
This fall was supposed to be when colleges were held to tougher loan default measures. But many may breathe a sigh of relief, thanks to data
Choosing College: What We Don’t Know
It’s clear that the availability of information to students about where to go to college and how to finance it is unevenly distributed.
Video: America’s Worst Colleges
“Drop-Out Factories” are one of the biggest barriers on the path to students getting affordable, quality higher education.
How Advocates and Politicians Abuse Fair-Value Accounting
The CBO endorsed fair-value accounting as the most comprehensive measure of costs for government programs for years and does to this day.
Jumping Off the Merit Aid Merry-Go-Round
Some private colleges have jumped off the merit aid merry-go-round and redirected their resources to need-based aid.
Unfinished Business in the U.S. Senate
The Senate left a pile of unfinished business when it adjourned last week onto the campaign trail.
Lawmakers Approve Short-Term Budget, Avoid Federal Shutdown
Lawmakers voted to approve a continuing resolution to fund the government through Dec. 11.