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While controversial, adopting price controls such as these could impose some much-needed discipline in the market for higher education.
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Money, Research, and Remedial Education Reform
Is Stitching State Data Systems the Solution to the College Blackout?
There are advantages to stitching state data systems to answer national questions about student outcomes. But it also faces many logistical
How to Fix Remediation at Scale
Fixing Remediation at Scale explores how states use a variety of tools to scale and sustain co-requisite reforms across colleges.
If It’s Broke, Fix It
It is time to start from scratch on how we fund colleges and ensure an affordable, high quality education for all students.
If It’s Broke, Fix It
The proposals in presidential platforms to reform higher ed funding aren’t enough. Why? Because, Iris Palmer writes, you can’t paper over a
Want to have fewer STEM grads? State merit aid is for you.
Merit aid goes to rich students and decreases STEM grads. States should consider better ways to allocate funding.
The Clinton Plan: Everything but the Kitchen Sink
The Clinton plan to make college affordable includes every policy idea in higher education but the kitchen sink.
Degrees Denied: Adults Left out of State Financial Aid Programs
Policymakers should consider how to make state financial aid more accessible to students regardless of age.
Bernie Sanders’ Weird Plan to Control College Costs
Bernie Sanders' free college plan does try to control college costs
New Research on How States can Control Tuition Growth
New research finds that decentralized tuition setting authority and fixed caps on its rate of growth are associated with higher tuition.
Candy Crush Community College
New models of community college are offering more flexibility, but is this model addressing the major challenges?