Biden’s Higher Ed Opportunity
I'd bet a lot against Biden doing anything so sensible as to lower the demand for college credentials, but who knows.
Student Loans
A ‘Perpetual Undergraduate’ Reflects on the Student Loan Trap
Too bad that the political class is only able to think about debt relief and not the underlying problem.
Slow the Roll in the Student-Loan Market
Congress should develop a new commission to study the current state of student-loan programs, not rush toward a devastating debt jubilee.
Exhibit A
Our attitudes toward college debt are, like our attitudes toward higher education itself, in part a culture-war question.
The Burning Higher-Ed Issue — Cancel Student Debts?
Such an executive order is highly questionable and it would be extremely bad policy.
Student-Debt Relief Is a Bad Way to Stimulate the Economy
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget has a great breakdown of why this is so.
Don’t Forgive Student Debt
The Left has intensified its calls for Joe Biden to forgive student debt via executive order.
Forgiving Student Debt Is (Still) a Dumb Idea
Bad policy, bad law, bad politics.
Federal Student Aid Was a Bad Idea
Federal student aid is the cause of the upward ratcheting of credential inflation we have had over the last 40-plus years.
Good College Debt and Bad College Debt
We really should get the federal government completely out of college finance, but until such time, Cooper's reforms are good ones.