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A Policymaker’s Guide to Using New Student Debt Metrics to Strengthen Higher Education Accountability
Report considers three promising debt metrics that could complement and strengthen existing accountability metrics and ultimately move the needle on borrower success: debt-to-discretionary earnings ratios, earnings net of expected debt payments thresholds, and repayment rates.
Scaling Student Success: A National Proposal
Increasing college attainment offers tremendous promise for increasing social mobility, tackling poverty, and reducing racial and income inequality, aspirations that are more vital than ever as the devastating impact of the pandemic has fallen disproportionately on people of color. Yet for too many policymakers and practitioners, the path to growing our college completion ...
Key Finding
Nationally, more than six in ten (62 percent) college seniors who graduated from public and private nonprofit colleges in 2019 had student loan debt. These borrowers owed an average of $28,950. (Student Debt and the Class of 2019)
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Important, practical steps @usedgov can take to better #protectborrowers & #defendstudents in bankruptcy outlined by @studentlegalnet & Professor @PamelaFoohey in @MinnesotaLawRev. Read it here: https://t.co/6yAYiWL9la
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Federal Student Loan Amounts and Terms for Loans Issued in 2021-22
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Federal Student Loan Amounts and Terms for Loans Issued in 2021-22
Fact sheet summarizing loan limits, interest rates, and other terms for federal student loans issued from July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022.
Where to Find Evidence-Based College Completion Programs Across the Country
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Where to Find Evidence-Based College Completion Programs Across the Country
President Biden’s FY22 federal budget request includes $62 billion over ten years in new Completion Grants, aimed at increasing college completion rates nationwide among students…
