One day, Bill Bennett may be best remembered for saying (in 1987, while he was President Reagan's education secretary) that government student aid was largely responsible for the fact that the cost of going to college kept rising. What is called the "Bennett Hypothesis" has been heavily debated
Published: Wednesday, July 29th, 2015 @ 10:07 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Richard Cornuelle, the Indianapolis libertarian activist who started United Student Aid Funds (USAF), had a fight on his hands. His organization, whose downfall led ultimately to the creation of today's college-access giant known as the Lumina Foundation, was created with the goal of competing...
Published: Thursday, April 16th, 2015 @ 7:22 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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At the end of October, the Department of Education released its much-awaited "gainful employment" rule.
Published: Friday, December 5th, 2014 @ 11:28 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Until the mid-60s, the federal government had almost nothing to do with higher education, with college benefits for veterans under the GI Bill being the exception. But with the passage of the Higher Education Act, the government got massively into the student aid business.
Published: Monday, May 19th, 2014 @ 1:30 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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People keep talking about the high burden of college debt, which now surpasses credit card debt. And the federal government is doing something to help.
Published: Monday, May 12th, 2014 @ 2:05 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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When it comes to higher education, most politicians are cheerleaders. They're content to speak the usual pieties about the importance of college and never do anything that could upset the status quo.
Published: Saturday, March 1st, 2014 @ 4:36 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Colleges and universities must adopt College 2020 if they want to remain in the game, says Vance Fried.
Published: Thursday, April 11th, 2013 @ 4:45 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Not long ago at a North Carolina community college, there always seemed to be fewer cars in the parking lot the week after Pell grant checks were sent out. And one instructor noticed that some students weren't taking the final in her class. Why? They hadn't studied and knew they were going to...
Published: Thursday, February 28th, 2013 @ 9:42 pm
By: Duke Cheston
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