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Murphy wants to guarantee more college kids free tuition. Here’s why the plan has promise | Editorial Updated 8:00 AM; Today 8:00 AM Gov. Phil Murphy signed legislation to make community college tuition free for lower income students. Now hes extending that promise for two years at a four-year college. (Reena Rose Sibayan | The Jersey Journal) Facebook Share All too often, needy students rule out college because they believe the price tag is unaffordable. A 2020 study by three economists fo...

Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York Times Last year, as he steamrolled his way to victory in the Democratic presidential primaries, Joe Biden told CNN that the pandemic was “probably the biggest challenge in modern history, quite frankly.” “I think it may not dwarf but eclipse what F.D.R. faced,” he added. Biden referred to Franklin Roosevelt again in an interview with Evan Osnos of The New Yorker. “I’m kind of in the position F.D.R. was,” he said. And a week before the election, Bi...

values. It is separate from the newsroom. March 10, 2021 Credit...Illustration by The New York Times; photograph by Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA, via Shutterstock President Biden made it clear that he wanted to move fast and go big to deliver emergency aid to a nation reeling from the coronavirus pandemic. On Friday, he will realize this goal with the signing of the American Rescue Plan, a sweeping, $1.9 trillion aid package aimed at rescuing the nation from its pandemic slump. This is an early and impres...

-48:53 Cancel America’s Student Loan Debt! But How? It’s a trillion-dollar crisis that’s crippling the economy and dooming millions of college graduates. So what’s the fairest way to fix it? Wednesday, March 10th, 2021 jane coaston Today on The Argument, imagine if we wiped away every American’s student loan debt. Should we? The cost of higher education in America has skyrocketed in recent decades. And so have the student loans to pay for it. Americans are carrying more...

Does canceling student loan debt actually help those in most need? Biden dismissed calls to cancel $50K loans Tuesday and last updated 2021-02-17 15:27:22-05 WASHINGTON — The debate over student loan forgiveness is intensifying following President Joe Bidens comments during a CNN town hall Tuesday. Biden rejected a questioners request to cancel $50,000 in student loans. "I will not make that happen," Biden said. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), along with progressive lawmakers, have called o...

The (Non-Monetary) Value of a College Degree College graduates smoke less and are likelier to exercise than other Americans. And theyre civically engaged, the College Board says in a new report touting public benefits of higher education. By   With all the recent focus on accountability and "value added" by a college degree, its still common for a conversation on this topic to come down to individual earning potential. And a new report from the College Board has plenty of data to back up the...

Why Some Veterans Should Consider Trade School Instead of College Airman 1st Class Tyler Steenbeke-Notaro welds brackets together to mount on the base perimeter wall. (U.S. Air Force/Airman 1st Class Megan Myhre) For many veterans, even those with GI Bill benefits, the price of going to a traditional four-year university can come with extreme sticker shock. Paying potentially tens of thousands of dollars over four (or more) years to study for a degree that doesnt even guarantee a job in the fie...

Temple University graduate Ewan Johnsons mother borrowed so he could go to college. Growing up in a small town near Trenton, N.J., Ewan Johnson said there were birthdays when his mother couldnt afford to buy presents for him and his sister, but she did her best by baking cookies. There were times when she worked overtime in her job helping people with disabilities. “I come from a low economic background. Going to college was literally my only way out,” Johnson says. But like many students,...

Biden’s Debt Forgiveness Plan Would Help Millions of California Students Millions of Californians could get one of the biggest transfers of money in this country’s history as lawmakers and the incoming president duel over competing plans to rid the nation of ten of billions of dollars in student debt. If President-elect Joe Biden follows through with his campaign promise to forgive $10,000 in federal student debt, as many as 1.3 million Californians could see the balance on their federal co...

OPINION: Alarm Bells Ringing on Education Technology Dec 28, 2020 at 09:52 am by WGNS OP-ED by JC Bowman and Scott Cepicky with the Professional Educators of TN   The 2020 Netflix movie, The Social Dilemma, explores the growth of social media and the damage it has caused to society. It features interviews with many former executives and professionals from tech companies and social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Apple who sounded the alarm on thei...