CATO Institute Andrew Gillen June 3, 2024 Mass student loan forgiveness is terrible policy (see this report for a comprehensive list of reasons), but that hasn’t stopped the Biden administration from trying to forge ahead. While the Supreme Court overturned the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness plan, every few weeks, the administration announces another batch of loans that […]
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Deseret News Jacob Hess May 31, 2024 Amidst widening concern over the cost and value of higher education, smaller institutions focused exclusively on hands-on, career-oriented education that is achievable in a reasonable timeframe and budget are getting more attention from prospective students. Writing for The Atlantic several years back, George Mason economics professor Bryan Caplan remarked on […]
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On Ed Tech Phil Hill May 31, 2024 In Wednesday’s post I described how the justifying story for the US Department of Education (ED) proposal to gut reciprocity agreements (and specifically the State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement, or SARA) is simply wrong. Independence University’s (IU) in SARA did not prevent Colorado from taking any consumer protection action, it […]
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Ed Source Michael Burke April 3, 2024 California’s community colleges, since fall 2021, have distributed more than $5 million to fraudulent students, who are often bots, CalMatters reported. CalMatters cited monthly reports that the colleges must submit to the statewide chancellor’s office. On top of the federal aid, colleges also said they have distributed almost $1.5 […]
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