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A Public Mimics Its Private Peers
New financing policy at William & Mary embraces “high tuition/high aid” model, while emphasizing middle class affordability and investing in academic quality.
Opinion
A Better Factory Model
The factory production model can work as a means for evaluating community college efficiency, write Clive Belfield and Davis Jenkins.
A Rare Washington Compromise?
At a Senate hearing, Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Republicans suggest they could find common ground on changing student loan interest rates to a market-based formula.
Big Disruption, Big Questions
Possible end game for competency-based education emerges with five new "direct assessment" programs, as foundations and experts discuss how to ensure academic quality.
And So It Begins
With concurrent hearings, Congress takes the first tentative steps toward reauthorizing the Higher Education Act.
Expert Testimony Restored
A federal appeals court finds a lower court should not have excluded expert testimony in a case in which a student sued her college for negligence.
Taxing International Student Tuition
In Washington state, legislators propose a 20 percent surcharge on international student tuition. The universities worry that students will stop coming.
Opinion
Wrong Solutions on Loans
Yes, student loan debt is a major problem, but the proposals offered by both President Obama and Senate Republicans won't solve it, writes Aaron Smith.