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State Support for Higher Education Falls after Stimulus Dollars Fade Away
Federal stimulus dollars in 2009 helped higher education delay the ugly realities of severe budget cuts but with the expiration of those dollars the harsh reality is upon higher education. The...
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Textbooks represent an ever increasing cost of attendance at an institution of higher education. An innovative strategy in California is worth watching. Via The Atlantic: “This week, California took a...
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Two-Year College Financial Aid Default Rates: Relative Density Analysis
In August, 2012, I summarized my study of federal financial aid default rates for four-year institutions. The following is a summary of the distribution of federal financial aid default rates for...
View ArticleAccess to Higher Education for Lower Socio-Economic Status Students Doesn’t...
Via The Guardian: “Sometimes in politics there’s a tendency for the best of intentions to surreptitiously breed assumptions. So much energy builds up around solving one issue that other problems...
View ArticleHow Charter Schools Exclude the Kids They Don’t Want
The National Education Policy Center has an interesting and provocative summary of an investigative reporter’s research on the how charter schools exclude the kids they don’t want. “Stephanie B. Simon,...
View ArticleIn US the Share of 25-34 Year-Olds with Higher Education is Lower than the...
Via Tim Taylor “In almost every high income country, the share of 25-34 year-olds with higher education is higher than that for the age 25-64 population as a whole–about 7 percentage points higher....
View ArticleIncreases in State Financial Support for Students Significantly Impacts...
Access to and graduation from a college is, according to many, a key factor for upward mobility in America. In a panel study Toutkoushian and Hillman (2012) document the key role states play in...
View ArticlePart II: Colleges in the Bottom 5% for Having More than 28% of Students...
This is Part II dealing with the Education Trust Fund’s report on colleges that “qualify as engines of inequality, dropout factories, or diploma mills.” In Part I colleges were identified in the...
View ArticleAt What Cost? How Community Colleges that Do Not Offer Federal Loans Put...
In 2013-14, nearly one million community college students across the nation were denied access to federal student loans, the safest and most affordable way to borrow for college. Our issue brief...
View ArticleStudent Loan Debt Is the Enemy of Meritocracy in the US
Thomas Piketty in “Student Loan Debt Is the Enemy of Meritocracy in the US” argues that student debt is associated with greater inequality and it is the enemy of meritocracy. “…the amount of household...
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