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Quiet Players, Deep Pockets
Guarantee agencies branch out as private-lending pool dries up. Most stick to college completion and financial advising, but one produces a film while another buys 56 campuses from a for-profit.
Good Cop, Bad Cop From White House
The summit underscores a tension in the Obama administration’s higher ed approach: how to promote colleges' and universities' successes while holding them more accountable.
Opinion
15 Hours Doesn't Work for Everyone
We can do a lot to help adult students finish college. But increasing the course load for full-time Pell Grant recipients could actually hurt some of them, Pamela Tate argues.
Promise Goes Grassroots
National "free tuition" group changes its name and pitch with plan to support state and city tuition scholarships while continuing to push on the federal level.
Default Rate Adjustments Panned
The top Democrats on the U.S. Senate and House education committees hit the Obama administration over decision to lower some colleges' default rates, allowing them to avoid sanctions.
Gaming the System
Public colleges may be using grade inflation or tightening admissions standards to comply with performance-based funding, survey finds.
Debt-Averse Teens
A survey of teenagers finds that tomorrow's undergraduates want to go to college but don't want to use student loans.
Tuition and Borrowing Growth Slows
College Board's annual reports give evidence that rising tuition prices and college debt may not go on forever. Tuition increases are slowing, as education borrowing declines slightly.