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Ratings Release Draws Nearer
Education Department official gives earlier release date for college ratings while talking about quest for quality data and how to capture multiple student goals and outcomes.
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.
Corinthian Sale Goes Through
ECMC closes deal to buy 53 Corinthian campuses, earning praise from federal agencies and some consumer groups for deal to forgive $480 million in students' private loans.
Warrior and Scholar
Two-week boot camp to help veterans make the transition to college is spreading at selective institutions.
Replenishing Research
President Obama's 2016 budget proposal includes nearly across-the-board increases for research, with heavy focus on biomedical sciences, climate change, advanced manufacturing and STEM education.
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.