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The Employer Potential of MOOCs
The Employer Potential of MOOCs
A recent report from RTI International and Duke University shows results from an online survey of 398 North Carolina employers regarding the
Comments on Opening the 10 GHz band for Shared Use
The New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute joined Public Knowledge in submitting comments to the Federal Communications Commissi
How The DOTCOM Act Could Endanger Rather Than Protect Internet Freedom
Poster Child for Fair-Value Accounting: Student Loan Debt Swap
The debt swap does little more than reshuffle a set of existing loans on paper.
Public Service Loan Forgiveness Does Not Make Your Loan Affordable
Since President Obama proposed changes to IBR and PSLF, a debate over affordability has touched off.
OTI Sends Letter To Congress on the DOTCOM Bill and the IANA Transition
What’s in Rubio’s New Income Share Agreement Bill?
The bills require certain consumer disclosures to be clearly communicated to the individual receiving the ISA.
Million Records Project Raises as Many Questions as Answers
For all the questions the SVA report answers, it raises at least as many more.
Locked Up and Locked Out: Applying an Assets Lens to Reentry
For ex-offenders, the institutional barriers to basic financial stability—let alone savings—are vast.
OTI Convenes Researchers to Discuss Data and Discrimination
PLUS Loans are not Grants
Parent PLUS loans are not like other forms of federal student aid and lumping them in the same category is deceptive.
Time to Improve Federal and State Educator Preparation Policies
The nation’s—in fact, the world’s—expectations for what PreK-12 students should know and are able to do are rising.
A Second Chance for Low-Income Men
National-level anti-poverty programs have traditionally left low-income men out of the equation