Friday 6 January 2012

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Education Roundup: Teachers Unions, States Clash Over Evaluation Systems

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 05:00 AM PST

In this week's roundup: New York gets tough with school districts, teachers rebel against technology.

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Can I Combine Parent and Child Student Loans?

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST

"There has been some recent news on changes to student loan programs, but the holy grail you seek of being able to consolidate public, private, student and parent loans into one consolidated student...

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Understanding the Full Benefits of Subsidized Stafford Loans

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST

"In the Budget Control Act of 2011 (aka the debt ceiling agreement) Congress provided the latest round of supplemental funding for the Pell Grant program," Jason Delisle writes in the New America...

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01-05: 2012-13 Expected Family Contribution (EFC) Formula Guide (Jan. 2012 Update)

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST

The Department of Education (ED) has posted the updated 2012-13 EFC Formula Guide on the Information for Financial Aid Professionals (IFAP) website. The guide includes EFC worksheets and tables for...

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Opinion: Don't Blame For-Profit Colleges for the Higher-Ed Lobbying Epidemic

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST

"The last two years have not been kind to for-profit colleges," Andrew P. Kelly, a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, writes in The Atlantic. "Claims of widespread fraud and abuse...

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01-05: Default Rates for Cohort Years 2005-09

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST

This announcement contains an explanation of the three types of Default Rates and a summary of these rates for the Cohort Years 2005-09. The three types of rates are Cohort Default Rate, Budget...

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Loving the Job, But Hating the Student Loan Debt

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST

"Here's one thing that's obvious about Vanessa and Chris Christman: They love their jobs as public law librarians for the state of California," Allison Linn writes in MSNBC's Life Inc. blog. "Here's...

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10 Tips for Getting Gederal Student Aid

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST

"It's financial aid season, which means millions of families will be grappling with the FAFSA in the next few weeks," CBS Money Watch reports. "Chances are most families are going to make mistakes...

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Opinion: No Benefit In Mischaracterizing Ills of Higher Education

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST

"Unquestionably, our colleges today face serious challenges. Billions of dollars have been wiped from the budgets of public campuses as a result of the harsh economic realities in most states,"...

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ABA Head has Little Sympathy for Jobless Lawyers

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST

"Young lawyers with huge educational debts and no jobs in a depressed U.S. legal market should have known what they were getting into, the president of the American Bar Association said on...

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