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Monday, January 26, 2015

More evidence that the New York Times is totally clueless about the Student-Loan Crisis

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Today's New York Times contained a full-page advertisement  (on page A22) with this message: "What our reporters are reading can ...
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Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Who turned on the gas at Auschwitz? Reflections on student-loan debtors in bankruptcy

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Gas Chamber Door at Auschwitz--Looking Out My father spent most of World War II as a a prisoner of war in Japanese concentration camps. ...
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Wednesday, December 3, 2014

It is madness to borrow money for six years to get a four-year college degree

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Complete College America, a nonprofit public advocacy group located in Indianapolis, issued a report recently entitled Four-Year Myth. The r...
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Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Friends don't let friends go to college in Boston

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The  New York  Times ran a front-page story recently about what it called Edgar Allan Poe's "love-hate relationship with the city o...
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Monday, December 1, 2014

If you have the right credentials, it's not hard to get into an elite college. But why would you want to do that?

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All across America, middle class high-school students are sweating over college applications. If only I can get into an elite college, young...
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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

When It Comes to Student-Loan Crisis, The Department of Education Is a Wizard of Oz Outfit: No Brains, No Courage, and No Heart

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As the The   Chronicle of Higher Education reported recently, the U.S. Department of Education has relaxed it standards for regulating stud...
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Sunday, November 23, 2014

You can't win if you don't play! Elite colleges engage in "promiscuous" recruiting to get their acceptance rates down

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Frank Bruni wrote a provocative op ed essay in the Times  awhile back about aggressive recruiting practices by elite colleges and universit...
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