At-risk children would benefit academically if given the opportunity to pay tutors to recover learning losses
Higher Education
Student debt now exceeds $1.5 trillion. We must overhaul a system that, for too long, has incentivized colleges and universities to charge unaffordable prices for degrees that do not always improve the lives of their recipients. Measures of return on investment (ROI) can help ensure that that institutions are accountable for the economic outcomes of the students they plunge into indebtedness.
All Higher Education
The Fifth Circuit enjoined a Biden regulation that would have cancelled billions in student loans
The Gainful Employment (GE) rule is an important step towards stronger accountability for higher education, but it has some critical drawbacks
The three-year student loan payment moratorium will finally end in August, thanks to a last-minute bipartisan deal to increase the federal debt ceiling. The pause, which Congress authorized for six months at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, was unilaterally extended several times by the Trump and Biden administrations. Despite the Biden administration’s assurances that...
A closer look at the data shows that the universities which draw the most funding tend to need it the least
The federal student aid system needs a stronger accountability framework adapted for the challenges of today
While the list is far from adequate to address the problem of low-quality degrees, more transparency about student outcomes in higher education is a step in the right direction
The new proposal has several faults that need to be addressed