Senator Elizabeth Warren, trying to remain relevant in the Democratic Party primaries, proposed a law that would wipe out student loan debt. Her proposal demonstrates her lack of understanding of what caused the student loan debt in the first place.
Topic: student loan debt
Poor Graduation Rates are the Root Problem for Higher Education
The deputy chancellor and professor of psychological and brain sciences at University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Robert Feldman, did not leave much to the imagination of what the root problem of higher education is today: poor and…
How About “America First” for College Admissions?
In a recent article, “Surge in foreign students may be crowding Americans out of elite colleges,” The Washington Post stumbled on the truth about one of the factors affecting the rising cost of college for American…
Feds Should Stop Pushing College Students into Ruinous Debt
That sounds like a reasonable assertion, right? Why is the federal government pushing America’s future into ruinous student loan debt? This from George Leef: Bad borrowing decisions are almost impossible to escape. Consider the case…
Op-Ed: No, Hillary Clinton Can’t Save College
George Leef said the following about Hillary Clinton supporters advocating that she will ‘fix college’: The key objective of Clinton’s plan is to get more Americans into college, especially those from lower income families, and…
How American Higher Education Turned into a False Promise
From our friend George Leef at the Pope Center: One is the proliferation of college graduates who can only find jobs that don’t call for college education. As the number of Americans holding college credentials…
Washington D.C. Area has the Worst Student Loan Debt Situation in the Country
From the College Fix: Six of the 10 richest counties in America are clustered around Washington, D.C. But the city itself has a big problem when it comes to student debt loads and availability of…
Two Ex-College Presidents Deny There is a Student Loan Crisis
From Campus Reform: Two former college presidents are fighting the “myth” of college debt and its alleged solution of free tuition, placing the blame on the student dropout rate instead. Dr. William G. Bowen and…
Hillary Clinton’s Adoption of Bernie Sanders’ ‘Free’ College Tuition would Cost $35 Billion
Considering that the U.S. government already is running a deficit, adding $35 billion to it is not conducive to financial stability or common sense. This from Reason: Clinton is doing more of the same here,…
Big Ten Universities Require Diversity and Cultural Courses as Student Debt Balloons
Diversity and culture courses are more important than financial literacy and slowing down student debts in Big Ten schools.
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University of Louisiana-Lafayette Updates Free Speech Policy after Criticism from Student Group
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Why Angela Davis Should Remember the Jonestown Massacre
Not that anyone should forget but the revolutionary radical turned credentialed academic has a special reason to remember the mass suicide/homicide that occurred 40 years ago in the country of Guyana on November 18, 1978.
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Before you find him on offer as a university speaker or course, you may want to read the meticulously documented story of Cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal by former Accuracy in Academia executive director Dan Flynn.
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