Linking High Ed Federal Aid to Performance and Equity is Great Idea!

Citizen Wealth Education Financial Justice

New Orleans   The Obama Administration is in the drafting stages of a proposal to link federal student financial aid to key accountability and affordability standards for higher educational institutions.   By 2015, the proposal would rate institutions by measures including tuition costs, graduation rates, debt load and earnings of graduates, and, thankfully, even the percentage of …

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Calculating Student Loans is Plain as Mud on Department of Education Site

Citizen Wealth Education Financial Justice

New Orleans    There was an interesting article in the paper today touting the calculator on the United States Department of Education (DOE) website.  They claimed that it would be helpful in figuring out the real costs of education at various institutions.  Sometimes they said, some universities might seem to expense to lower income students evaluating …

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What we get from the Victory: Immigration, Wage Action, Student Loans, Infrastructure, Etc

DC Politics Financial Justice Foreclosure Health Care Immigration Reform National Politics

New Orleans     We had this, and I’m with Nate Silver of the 538 column and blog of the Times: this was not “too close to call” unless we got rid of the Electoral College and didn’t tell anyone. Watching Obama win every single battleground state except North Carolina, pretty much cheek and jowl with all …

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