Hillary Clinton's Free College Promise Won't Be Free—and Won't Help College Students
Political concession to the Sanders crowd that you'll pay $35 billion for
Political concession to the Sanders crowd that you'll pay $35 billion for
Got his minimum wage plank and Clinton's support for free college.
"Maybe, instead of taking a fifth field trip to the Trail of Tears site, take one to learn about real jobs in an area they might want."
Restating the obvious.
Purdue's Mitch Daniels, Brookings' Jonathan Rauch, and students at Claremont-McKenna speak up loudly for the free and open exchange of ideas.
Somebody should picket for mandatory economics classes.
You can go to college for $60,000 total or $160,000. Is that really a tough decision? And what school should accept you if you pick the latter?
Why does America have higher attendance and graduation rates?
Democratic socialist plan for higher education is anything but
Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit explains why college is Camelot in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
...the White House finally unveiled a site that fails to do what the president championed.
Democrats have plans that obscure the real problems, but speak to the outrage.
Calls for more state and federal spending on administrative services.
Bill Clinton offered a tradeoff, while Hillary Clinton may be offering a handout.
We shouldn't choose policies based on how they make us feel. And yet...
For-profit colleges close after feds turn off easy loan spigot
Yeah, that's bad for taxpayers.
So exclusive. Much interview.
Since taking the job last year, Daniels has been fighting the good fight against bureaucratic bloat.
Let's tread lightly here, comrades.
For-profit schools get deserved flak, but the public universities lock kids into years of debt, too.
The U.S. Department of Education issued an apology after an outcry materialized over an apparently offensive Tweet.
Can students afford a night at the Ritz Carlton University?
But thinking that more federal aid will make college affordable is like believing that a dog can catch its tail if it goes faster.
Expect to see Democrats campaigning on that.
Something is always better than nothing, right?
Wants to extend a 2010 law to older borrowers.
The President's new College Scorecard will jack up federal taxpayer subsidies without improving accountability or reducing the soaring costs of tuition.
Cost is becoming an increasingly important factor when teenagers pick colleges.
"I get a little curious about it when it gets to a trillion dollars."
Sounds like a way to direct students to ones with the most subsidies
Why is the government in the lending business, again?
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