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Showing posts with label Arne Duncan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arne Duncan. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Why the Obama administration launched its REPAYE plan: It had no choice

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Late last year, the Obama administration's Department of Education launched its eighth student-loan repayment program , labeling it REPA...
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Wednesday, April 27, 2016

A Bernie Sanders Supporter Who Will Vote For Donald Trump: Cry Havoc!

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You ask me if I'll get along. I guess I will, someway. I don't like it but I guess things happen that way. Guess Things Ha...
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Tuesday, November 17, 2015

The Department of Education's so-called plan to "strengthen" the student loan system is pathetic. Do President Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan really care about distressed student-loan debtors?

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On October 1, 2015, the U.S. Department of Education issued a report entitled Strengthening the Student Loan System to Better Protect All Bo...
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Tuesday, October 6, 2015

A Brookings Institution Blogger Asks a Very Good Question: "How well do default rates reflect student loan repayment?"

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Robert Kelchen, posted a blog essay on the Brookings Institution's "Brown Center Chalkboard" that asks a very good question: ...
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Friday, October 2, 2015

Goodbye, Arne Duncan. We Hardly Knew Ye. The Secretary of Education Is Leaving Higher Education in a Mess

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Arne Duncan is stepping down as Secretary of Education in December. Like all good politicians, Arne knows when it's time to slip out the...
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Monday, September 21, 2015

The deluge is upon us: University of Phoenix students owe the taxpayers $35 billion; and 45 percent default within five years

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Earlier this month, the Brookings Institution published a report on student-loan default rates; and some of its findings are truly shocking...
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Friday, September 4, 2015

The End of the Beginning: The Corinthian Bankruptcy Case Marks a New Phase in the Meltdown of the Federal Student Loan Program

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Winston Churchill, in a speech delivered after the Battle of Egypt, Britain's first major victory in the Second World War, uttered th...
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Thursday, June 11, 2015

Student Loan Forgiveness for Students Who Attended One of the Schools Owned by Corinthian Colleges: I Recommend Chiang Kai-Shek's Fire Hose Approach

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Chiang Kai-shek was the  leader of the Nationalist government of China for many years, but he was also a Methodist of sorts. I read somewher...
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Monday, May 11, 2015

Senator Elizabeth Warren and the Brookings Institution's Matthew Chingos are ignoring reality: The federal government is not making a profit off the student-loan program

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Do you believe the federal government is making a profit off the student loan program? You do? Then I have some beautiful beachfront propert...
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Sunday, May 3, 2015

An episode of The Walking Dead: Why did the U.S. Department of Education oppose bankruptcy relief for a quadriplegic student-loan debtor?

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America's insolvent student-loan debtors are the walking dead America's student-loan crisis is beginning to resemble an episode o...
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Sunday, March 22, 2015

Susan Dynarski wrings her hands because we don't have enough information about the student debt crisis. But we know enough to take action.

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Susan Dynarski recently wrote a half-page article in the Sunday Times , complaining about the government's lack of useful data about the...
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