How Not to Help the Poor: The Lesson of Soaring College Prices
Whenever policymakers argue over ways to lower the budget deficit, one of the most popular ideas on both sides of the aisle is "means testing" programs like Medicare or Social Security. Instead of...
View ArticleSex and the College Girl, 1957 vs. 2013
In her recent New York Times article, "Sex on Campus - She Can Play That Game, Too," Kate Taylor concludes that college sweethearts are old news. Miss Class of 2014 requires something different from...
View ArticleA Mystery Behind the Rise of Student Debt
The wild growth of student debt seems like an illness with an obvious cause. Both enrollment and tuition prices went on a tear over the past two decades. Add the two together, and you get today's...
View ArticleWhy U.S. Students Don’t Major in Science
In recent years, a lot of people have been concerned about the relatively low numbers of science majors among American college students. The percentage of science and engineering graduates in the U.S....
View ArticleIs Law School a Good Deal After All?
Ever since the Great Recession sucked the air out of the legal industry, an extremely vocal group of writers -- myself included -- has been trying to warn pretty much any 20-something with an Internet...
View ArticleAmerica’s Top Colleges 2013–Forbes
When future historians of U.S. higher education look back to when the ground really began to shake, they may well pinpoint 2013. They’ll see disruption in curriculum (towards STEM majors and away from...
View ArticlePrint Textbooks Still Dominate Campus Textbook Market
In July, Cengage Learning, one of the biggest textbook publishers on the market, voluntarily filed for bankruptcy. With almost $6 billion in debt, the private equity-backed company laid out a...
View ArticleOur Student Loan System Is Broken, and These New Statistics Prove It
When you think about America's student loan crisis, it helps to break the issue into two halves. First, you have the the sheer amount of debt students are piling on. This part of the problem is...
View ArticleRipping Off Young America: The College-Loan Scandal
On May 31st, president Barack Obama strolled into the bright sunlight of the Rose Garden, covered from head to toe in the slime and ooze of the Benghazi and IRS scandals. In a Karl Rove-ian...
View ArticleObama Announces Plan to Forgive All Student Loans
President Obama announced a plan today to forgive 100 percent of all federal student loans in the country. In a speech in Scranton, PA the president told an assembled crowd that it was unfair to hold...
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