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President Obama's ideas about changing federal student aid policy to factor in "value" and "price" are likely to end up hurting low-income students and the colleges that serve them, writes Christopher P. Loss.

With apologies to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sherman Dorn considers the hype over massive open online courses.

The "common core" movement led by the head of the College Board has made the organization's exam less needed than ever, writes Joseph Soares.

Thomas Friedman's latest celebration of massive open online courses is riddled with contradictions and shallow thinking, writes Carolyn Foster Segal.

Jonathan Rees found much to like in a MOOC in which he enrolled, but writes that the use of students to evaluate one another does not work and undermines the role of professors.

Scholars in the humanities have a money-making tradition to draw upon, and they should embrace it, writes Richard Utz.

Garrison Walters offers some thoughts on the lessons that trustees and others should (and shouldn't) have drawn from the University of Virginia's governance meltdown.