Technological changes have a way of creating new possibilities, but also new problems. Cell phones have evolved to the point where they can be used to make excellent audio and visual reproductions of events. That can be beneficial, as for example when cell phone video can prove whether a person...
Published: Sunday, June 15th, 2014 @ 3:30 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Last August, the Obama administration floated the idea of a federal college rating system. The basic idea is to reward colleges that score well in the metrics of the system by allowing students who enroll in them to receive larger Pell grants. Conversely, colleges that scored poorly would only be...
Published: Monday, January 6th, 2014 @ 6:04 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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More and more college-age students are taking community college classes before transferring to four-year universities. They can save money (community college tuition is a fraction of four-year school tuition), gain maturity, and maybe even bring up their grades enough to...
Published: Friday, May 17th, 2013 @ 6:49 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Last September, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded $3.3 million in grants for papers on the subject of federal student aid programs--specifically, how we should "reimagine" student aid. The papers were recently released, but there wasn't anything very imaginative in them.
Published: Thursday, March 28th, 2013 @ 8:55 pm
By: George Leef
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