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State U Online, the Wisconsin Idea, and Broadband Barriers
This blog post originally appeared on Higher Ed Watch, a blog from the New America Foundation's Education Policy Program, as part of a series of posts related to the April 2013 report State U...
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Education Watch Podcast: Driving Innovation in Higher Education
New America higher education experts Amy Laitinen and Rachel Fishman discuss policy reforms that could alter the higher education system for the better. Laitinen explains how to move past the credit...
View ArticleDepartment of Education Light on Details for Sequestration of TEACH Grants
Last week, the New America Foundation’s Education Policy Program published an issue brief on the recently completed (and two months late) fiscal year 2013 budget, with an early analysis of how the 2014...
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The Higher Ed Arms Race: How the High-Tuition High-Aid Model Shuts Out...
Yesterday, the New America Foundation's Education Policy Program released "Undermining Pell: How Colleges Compete for Wealthy Students and Leave the Low-Income Behind." Author Stephen Burd reveals a...
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A Divide In the Student Loan Interest Rate Debate
A clear divide has emerged in the debate over the interest rates on federal student loans. In one camp are House and Senate Republicans, along with President Obama; in the other are the congressional...
View ArticleCommentary on the Student Loan Interest Rate Debate
Be sure to check out this op-ed on Yahoo Finance regarding Senator Warren's proposal to cut interest rates on federal student loans.This Ed Money Watchpost has a rundown of all of the pending...
View ArticleSubsidized Stafford Loans Come at a Cost – Even at a Higher Interest Rate
The student loan interest rate debate will come to a head early this summer as the 3.4 percent interest rate on Subsidized Stafford student loans nears its July 1 expiration. When that deadline hits,...
View ArticleFact Checking the Student Loan Interest Rate Debate
This post was updated on May 31 and June 3 with additional entries. The White House and House Republicans are arguing over two competing proposals to reform how the government sets interest rates on...
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Technology and the Next Generation University
May 21, 2013Rachel FishmanClick here to download the issue brief.After besting the world in college attainment for much of the 20th century, the United States now ranks sixteenth in the share of adults...
View ArticleFact Checking the Student Loan Interest Rate Debate
The White House and House Republicans are arguing over two competing proposals to reform how the government sets interest rates on federal student loans. As we wrote two weeks ago, this is a good sign...
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Is $1 trillion a number we should fear?
The most popular number in higher education today is $1 trillion—the total amount of outstanding student loan debt, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. It’s big and scary; the size of...
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MOOCs, Robots, and the Secret of Life
For the last two years, MOOCs have dominated the national conversation on technology and the economics of higher education. But for all the talk of whether they’ll usher in a new age of democratized...
View ArticleReady or Not, Here They Come: Social Promotion Comes to FL CCs
In the transition between high school and college, remediation policy is arguably the most difficult piece of the puzzle. Students are often placed into remedial courses at community colleges by...
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Still think that college degree doesn't matter?
The monthly unemployment data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics is out today and the findings are largely unsurprising--the unemployment rate is largely unchanged and those with increasing levels of...
View ArticleThe Condition of Education 2013
The U.S. Department of Education recently released its annual report, “The Condition of Education 2013,” which presents 42 indicators of important developments and trends in U.S. education, including a...
View ArticlePostsecondary Institutions and Price of Attendance in 2012-13; Degrees and...
This report from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) offers preliminary enrollment and degree attainment data for colleges and universities for the 2011-12 academic year and cost of...
View ArticleVA Education Benefits: VA Needs to Improve Program Management and Provide...
The Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) recent report VA Education Benefits: VA Needs to Improve Program Management and Provide More Timely Information to Studentsexplores challenges veterans face...
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Five Key Points on Student Loan Interest Rates from the CBO
Yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a brief on student loan interest rates. It’s a treasure trove of information, and it adds new information to the debate in Congress over how to...
View ArticleWhat Reading 900+ Comments Tells Us About the Coming Gainful Employment...
Circle September 9 on your calendars. That's the date according to a Federal Register notice published yesterday that the Department of Education will bring together a committee to develop new...
View ArticleStudent Stories from Gainful Employment Programs UPDATED
Last week, Higher Ed Watch took a look at some of the gainful employment policy questions raised in the over 900 public comments submitted to the Department of Education. While policy discussions will...
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