We can have a better higher-education system, or we can have schools that cater to the elite and privileged. We can’t have both.
Education Department
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Implementing Student Debt Relief Is Critical
There are a lot of ways the government can mess this up.
Posted inEducation in America
The Case for Higher-Education Price Controls
President Biden’s changes to student loan repayment are welcome, but they give schools a bad incentive.
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One Way Out of the White House Political Box on Student Debt
If they auto-enroll everyone in their newly generous income-driven repayment plan, it will significantly take the sting out of resuming payments.
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Joe Biden’s Student Debt Forgiveness Is a Good Start
But more reform is needed to attack cost bloat in American higher education.
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Education Department Won’t Hold For-Profit College Executives Personally Accountable
A top official at the department claims he needs executives’ personal signatures on specific documents to make them financially liable for defrauding their students. But he already has them.
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How to Dismantle For-Profit Colleges, Without Congress
A previously undisclosed memo to the Education Department offers a step-by-step guide to closing predatory schools before they suck up more federal loans.
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All Corinthian College Loans to Be Canceled
Thanks in large part to activist work from a group of debt strikers,
over half a million borrowers of the defunct for-profit college chain will have their
loans forgiven.
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Washington’s Best Hope
Rohit Chopra’s unconventional methods for making change happen in a sclerotic government
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Will Spiking Energy Prices Necessitate Student Loan Debt Cancellation?
The Biden administration has promised a decision by May.