Research on Savings and Financing College for Lower-Income Students
Editor’s Note: This post is part one in a series of four exploring research on the relationship between assets and children’s educational outcomes. Senior Research Fellow Willie Elliott is an Assistant...
View ArticleGuest Post: Ensuring Access to Higher Education for Lower-Income Students
Editor’s Note: Rebecca Shafer is a program associate with New America’s Bernard Schwartz Fellows Program. Previously, she taught at a public charter school in Washington, D.C. and a public school in...
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Ending the Merit Aid Merry-Go-Round
A group of private college leaders are calling for a cease fire in the institutional financial aid arms war. S. Georgia Nugent, the president of Kenyon College, is spearheading a movement to try to get...
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Syllabus: Week of January 14-18
Welcome to the first edition of the Syllabus, a weekly guide that provides insight into what’s happening in higher education.Read:The Next Affirmative Action, Kevin CareyWashington MonthlyIn the...
View ArticleThe Case for Student Aid Reform
[The New America Foundation’s Education Policy Program today released a comprehensive package of policy proposals that would provide an overhaul of federal financial aid. The report, Rebalancing...
View ArticleAn Overview of Our Student Aid Reform Proposals
[The New America Foundation’s Education Policy Program on Tuesday released a comprehensive package of policy proposals that would provide an overhaul of federal financial aid. The report, Rebalancing...
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Rebalancing Resources and Incentives in Federal Student Aid
January 29, 2013Stephen BurdKevin CareyJason DelisleRachel FishmanAlex HoltAmy LaitinenClare McCannClick here to view PDFEXECUTIVE SUMMARYThe federal financial aid system is no longer up to today’s...
View ArticleSetting Student Loan Interest Rates: Income-Based Repayment IS the Cap
Congress and the president need a more rational way to set interest rates on federal student loans. The 6.8 percent rate on the most widely-available type of loan was set in 2001 and based on what...
View ArticleMaking Sure Colleges Remain Engines of Opportunity Not Inequality
Do colleges still provide a gateway to opportunity for low-income and working class students? Or are they perpetuating inequality in this country by limiting opportunity to only those who are rich...
View ArticleWhy Federal Officials Should Require Some Colleges to Match Pell Grants
Yesterday at Higher Ed Watch, I argued that a federal solution is needed to ensure that colleges use their institutional aid resources to keep higher education affordable for low- and moderate-income...
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The Academic Graveyard Shift
In 1969, tenure track faculty constituted 78 percent of the academic workforce. Today, less than 25 percent of the academy is on the tenure track (TT). This means that in about forty years, faculty...
View ArticlePresident Obama’s Bold Plan To Reshape American Higher Education
As a rule, speechwriters put the most dramatic parts of a president’s agenda front and center in televised speeches, leaving the boring policy details to the supplemental notes. Last night, the Obama...
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New College Scorecard: Will Students Use It?
In last night’s State of the Union, President Obama announced the release of the College Scorecard, a consumer information resource that helps students and families compare colleges and universities on...
View ArticleOne Thing Obama and Rubio Agree on: Higher Education Innovation
This post ran first on the Future Tense blog.The opposition response to the State of the Union is normally a time to denounce the president and all his works. For the most part, Sen. Marco Rubio,...
View ArticleToo Much 'Merit Aid' Requires No Merit
February 19, 2013Kevin CareyFebruary 19, 2013URL: http://newamerica.net/node/79507 On June 9, 1904, Harvard's president, Charles W. Eliot, wrote a letter to Charles Francis Adams Jr. A former railroad...
View ArticleThe Impact of the New Pell Grant Restrictions on Community Colleges: A Three...
A new study by the Education Policy Center at the University of Alabama finds that enrollment at community colleges in Alabama, Arkansas, and Mississippi declined significantly in the fall of 2012 due...
View ArticlePreserving Need-Blind Admissions Comes at a Price at Grinnell
When it comes to private colleges enrolling and supporting low-income students, Grinnell College has been one of the best. Nearly a quarter of its students receive Pell Grants, and the lowest-income...
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Double Whammy to College Affordability: New Reports Show College Costs Up but...
Fresh off the presses are two reports highlighting the dismal state of college affordability: the first was released Wednesday by the State Higher Education Executive Officer's Association showing that...
View ArticleCalifornia's Groundbreaking State Online Higher Education Plan
California is currently home to two of the most important things happening in higher education, one good, one bad. The good thing is the rapid advancement of cheap and free online courses offered by...
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Department of Education Letter Could Put Cracks in the Credit Hour
The U.S. Department of Education took a critical step forward today in moving towards a more flexible and innovative financial aid system—one that privileges (and pays for) learning, rather than time....
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