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In FAFSA Simplification, Complexity
How many questions are really needed? And how many just confuse?
Income-Based Repayment Costs Rising
Budget documents show Obama's planned expansion of his Pay As You Earn plan will add $9 billion to already-rising long-term cost of federal student loans.
Warrior and Scholar
Two-week boot camp to help veterans make the transition to college is spreading at selective institutions.
Counting Students Equally?
The Education Department's ratings framework embraces the concept of adjusting outcomes for student demographics -- an approach that would be unusual for the federal government but that isn't without its critics.
Sticking With Credit Hour
Carnegie Foundation releases its much-awaited report on the credit hour -- higher education's currency -- which disappoints some by not calling for different standard unit for learning.
The New Normal at Berkeley
Governor Jerry Brown, a Cal alum, says "normal" students can't get into the university anymore. Why? Some blame Brown's budgets.
Opinion
Help Community College Students: Restore Year-Round Pell
As President Obama pushes unlikely plan to help two-year institutions, Jason Delisle and Ben Miller say his administration should bring back program it helped kill in 2011.
Obama's Final Two Years
The White House adds to its lengthy list of proposals for higher education, but faces long odds in Congress for most of the agenda.