Education Department Data Show Two-Thirds of For-Profit Students Can’t Pay Down Loans
August 13, 2010
The Department of Education released a lot of new information today pertaining to its July 26 proposal to define “gainful employment.”
A First Look at Net Price Data
August 13, 2010
The U.S. Department of Education posted average net price data for thousands of individual colleges to its College Navigator web site last week.
PBS’s College, Inc.
May 5, 2010
In College, Inc., correspondent Martin Smith investigates the promise and explosive growth of the for-profit higher education industry. Through interviews with school executives, government officials, admissions counselors, former students and industry observers, this film explores the tension between the industry --which says it's helping an underserved student population obtain...
Accountability: A new four-letter word?
March 4, 2010
We recently attended the U.S. Department of Education’s negotiated rulemaking on “program integrity,” which is supposed to put some teeth back into the regulations that determine which colleges can – and can’t -- participate in federal student aid programs. Only students at participating colleges and in eligible programs can get federal grants and loans. Some of these...
Better Data on Student Borrowing Needed
October 22, 2008
Student debt is up again, according to the data that we at the Project on Student Debt released today. One of the lessons we have learned from putting together these reports for the past three years is just how difficult it is to get timely and accurate information about students' loans. Congress and the next leadership of the U.S. Department of Education could take some simple...
