Posts filed as “US education”

Want to fix the US student loan crisis? Put colleges on the hook

Some colleges have higher default rates than graduation rates, proof that we should evaluate institutions' risk as well

The question of student loans is taking on an increasing urgency everywhere but Washington.

Rates on federally subsidized loans doubled to almost 7% on July 1, thanks to Congressional bickering and dithering. The latest attempt to roll back the rates failed to get out of the Senate earlier this week, when sponsoring...Read more.

Want to fix the US student loan crisis? Put colleges on the hook

Some colleges have higher default rates than graduation rates, proof that we should evaluate institutions' risk as well

The question of student loans is taking on an increasing urgency everywhere but Washington.

Rates on federally subsidized loans doubled to almost 7% on July 1, thanks to Congressional bickering and dithering. The latest attempt to roll back the rates failed to get out of the Senate earlier this week, when sponsoring...Read more.

Unemployment is killing America’s economically vulnerable women early

Americans are living longer than ever but average lifespan of white, female high school drop-outs has plunged dramatically

Is a lack of jobs killing some of America's most economically vulnerable women?

That's one of the provocative conclusions of Jennifer Karas Montez, a researcher at Harvard University, and author with Anna Zajacova, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wyoming, who set out to explain why the average lifespan of a...Read more.

Internships: why paying for experience is bad business

It's no longer enough to be willing to work for free – now you need to pay for the privilege of working for no salary

Psst. Want a job working for Miami Heat basketball star LeBron James? There's a nice internship in online marketing and another in content development currently being advertised on his website. If you are interested, you best get on it quick. Applications are due Tuesday.

Salary? Funny you...Read more.

Internships: why paying for experience is bad business

It's no longer enough to be willing to work for free – now you need to pay for the privilege of working for no salary

Psst. Want a job working for Miami Heat basketball star LeBron James? There's a nice internship in online marketing and another in content development currently being advertised on his website. If you are interested, you best get on it quick. Applications are due Tuesday.

Salary? Funny you...Read more.

Why ‘financial literacy’ is a bunch of hooey – and why the banks promote it | Helaine Olen

Companies and colleges say that if we all understand our finances, financial crises won't happen. This is simply untrue

April is National Financial Capability Month. You know what that means. We will be subject to many a tedious lecture, telling us how the financial crisis would not have happened if only those darn, irresponsible Americans knew how to handle their funds. And, of course, we'll believe it.

Almost all of us are...Read more.

Why you don’t need life insurance to protect against your child’s debt

It's easy to tell someone to save for their children's college, but higher education costs more than double since the 1980s

These articles … they are all the same. They open with bereaved parents, moms and dads dealing with the death of a young adult child. There is Angela Smith, whose son Donte Newsome, 25, was murdered in 2008. Or David and Rose Prior, whose son Andrew, 23, died after getting...Read more.

Do as I say, not as I do: Michelle Rhee and the public education paradox

Education activist argues for radical change in public schools but sends her children to private school, like many other officials

Our personal finances play an all-but-unspoken role in how our children are educated. In the United States, we fund public education via local property taxes. This means the more expensive the neighborhood real estate, the more likely that the children living there will attend a school with decent teacher-student ratios and...Read more.