Essays about Texas

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Wednesday, April 28, 2021

An online college education: What is it worth?

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 In olden times, college students took classes in the ivy-covered halls of universities.  Male professors showed up for class wearing profes...
Tuesday, April 13, 2021

College students: Don't take out student loans to get a degree in an easy discipline

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"Easy money lays light in the hand," Solzhenitsyn observed, "and doesn't give you the feeling you've earned it."...
Friday, April 9, 2021

Tingling v. ECMC: 52-year old student-loan debtor with multiple degrees loses her case before Second Circuit Court of Appeals

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Bankruptcy is intended to give honest but unfortunate debtors a fresh start in life. People who mismanage their finances, spend money improv...
Friday, April 2, 2021

President Biden ponders $50,000 student-loan cancelation: That doesn't go nearly far enough

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 President Biden has asked Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to prepare a memo on the president's legal authority to cancel up to $50,0...
Thursday, April 1, 2021

Don't let college professors persuade you that learning to speak Standard English is optional

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I've been to Georgia on a fast train honey, I wudn't born no yesterday. Got a good Christian raisin' and an eighth-grade educati...
Tuesday, March 23, 2021

"This student loan case fits the definition of insanity": Bankruptcy judge grants 56-year-old Kansan partial relief from his student-loan debt

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 In Goodvin v. Educational Credit Management Corporation , Judge Dale Somers, a Kansas bankruptcy judge, began his opinion with these words...
Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Sweet v. DeVos: A federal judge calls Education Department's Borrow-Defense process "Kafkaesque"

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In 2019, a group of student-loan debtors filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.  Clai...