Essays about Texas

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Saturday, June 28, 2014

Not With a Bang But With a Whimper: For-Profit Corinthian Colleges May Close Some Campuses

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Yesterday's New York Times carried a story in its Business Section about Corinthian Colleges, a for-profit company that operates under ...
Thursday, June 26, 2014

The Student Debt Crisis? What Student Debt Crisis? The Brookings Institution Issues A Report Stating That The Problem of Student Debt Has Been Exaggerated

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The Brookings Institutopn issued a report a few days ago suggesting that worries about a looming student-loan crisis may not be justified.  ...
Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Nonsense from Adam Davidson in the New York Times Magazine About the Wisdom of Young Adults Living With Their Parents

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Adam Davidson wrote an essay in the Magazine section of the New York Times about young adults who still live with their parents. The perc...
Friday, June 20, 2014

Senators Lamar Alexander and Michel Bennet Propose a Simpler FAFSA form: What a Good Idea!

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"Everything should be made as simple as possible," Albert Einstein observed, "but not simpler."  And indeed, simplicity,...
Wednesday, June 18, 2014

If You Have a Student Loan, You Should Read Susan Dynarski's Proposal for Having Student Loan Payments Automatically Deducted From Debtors' Pay Checks

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Susan Dynarski If you took out a federal student loan to attend college, you should read Susan Dynarski's op ed essay in last Sunday...
Monday, June 16, 2014

Why Humiliate Yourself To Get into an Ivy League College? The Search for a Richer Life

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Years ago I had a professor at the University of Texas who hung his college diploma in the guest bathroom of his home--right above the toile...
Friday, June 13, 2014

We Don't Need No Stinkin' College Rating System: President Obama's Plan to Rate Colleges on Value Faces Congressional Opposition

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President Obama is determined to impose some sort of college rating system on the nation's higher education institutions, even though th...