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Showing posts with label Catharine Hill. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Catharine Hill. Show all posts
Monday, September 16, 2019

Higher education leaders oppose Democrats' proposal for free college: Why?

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College tuition has risen faster than the rate of inflation for the past quarter-century. While wages have remained stagnant, the cost of go...
Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Loan-Forgiveness and Income-Driven Repayment Plans Are Costing Taxpayers a Bundle of Money

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The Department of Education's Office of Inspector General (OIG)issued another one of those mealy-mouth reports we've come to expect...
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Sunday, October 9, 2016

Hillary Clinton promises free college education and lower interest rates on student loans: These ideas won't solve the student-loan crisis, which is one hot mess

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Prompted by Senator Bernie Sanders , presidential candidate Hillary Clinton made two promises to student-loan debtors. First, if she is elec...
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Sunday, December 20, 2015

Harvard Economist N. Gregory Mankiw Provides a Lazy and Self-Serving Answer to Why College Costs So Much

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Harvard Professor N. Gregory Mankiw wrote a lazy and self-serving op ed essay in the New York Times today, in which he purported to explain...
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Friday, December 18, 2015

Deeper into the abyss: Obama introduces REPAYE, yet another income-based student-loan repayment plan designed to turn students into sharecroppers

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This week, the Obama administration introduced REPAYE , a new student-loan repayment plan.  Like PAYE ("Pay As You Earn"), REPAYE...
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Monday, December 7, 2015

College presidents' salaries are going up. Don't governing boards know they can hire dunderheads for a lot less money?

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Salaries for private college presidents  went up 5.6 percent between 2012 and 2013, according to a   Chronicle of Higher Education survey ....
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Friday, December 4, 2015

New York Times essayists argue for subsidized food, housing, and transportation for college students. Well, why the hell not?

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Sara Goldrick-Rab and Katharine M. Broton argued in the New York Times today that federal poverty programs should be expanded to include co...
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Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Bernie Sanders' proposal for free tutiiton at public universities could actually save taxpayers money. So why don't we do that?

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Bernie Sanders has proposed free tuition at all American public universities. Let's look at that proposal and also examine the reasons ...
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