The Biden administration has proposed another student debt relief plan for eight million people who cannot repay their loans because of “financially devastating hardships,” Miguel A. Cardona, the secretary of education, said on Friday. The proposal, which will almost certainly face legal challenges, builds on the administration’s strategy of finding …
Read More »‘A Rip-Off’: Students Secure a Final Settlement Against Walden University
For years, Dr. Aljanal Carroll was too ashamed to look at her degree from Walden University, let alone put it on display. Even after months slogging through reams of graduate work that earned her a doctorate in business administration in 2020, which she sought in hopes of a promotion inside …
Read More »White House, Used to Road Blocks on Student Debt, Finds Cause for Victory Lap
The Biden administration has reached a major milestone in its pursuit of expansive student debt relief, announcing on Thursday that over one million people have had their federal student debt canceled through a program that offers forgiveness to public service workers. For President Biden, whose student debt agenda has been …
Read More »Judge Halts Biden Student Debt Plan Right After It Was Allowed to Proceed
A federal judge in Missouri temporarily blocked a Biden administration plan to cancel student debt less than a day after another judge had allowed it to proceed, throwing into uncertainty the fate of a program that could affect more than 27 million borrowers. The decision, which came down late Thursday, …
Read More »Could Tutoring Be the Best Tool for Fighting Learning Loss? (Published 2022)
This article is part of our Learning special report about how the pandemic has continued to change how we approach education. While scrolling through Instagram, Joi Mitchell saw an ad for Saga Education, a nonprofit that provides high-impact tutoring in schools, and clicked on it. “I was running away from …
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