Category: Education
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Online degrees are still treated as second-class and that’s snobbery
Despite improved quality and accreditation, online degrees still carry stigma in hiring. The bias survives because credentialing has always been about signaling, not learning.
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Income-driven repayment is a trap dressed as relief
Income-driven student loan repayment plans look like relief but often extend debt for decades and inflate balances. Here’s how the math actually works.
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US News should be sued out of existence
The US News college rankings shape billions in tuition decisions while operating with thin methodology and serious conflicts of interest. Reform isn’t enough.
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Greek life should be banned and universities won’t because of donor pressure
Decades of hazing deaths, sexual assault data, and campus harm haven’t ended Greek life. Donor money explains why universities keep it alive.
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Why Some People Should Never Pay Off Their Student Loans
For some borrowers, paying off federal student loans is a financial mistake. Here’s why income-driven repayment and forgiveness programs change the math.
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The Common App created the admissions arms race
The Common App made applying to dozens of colleges almost free. Here’s how that single design choice reshaped admissions selectivity, anxiety, and inequality.
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Test-optional admissions made elite schools whiter and richer
Test-optional policies were sold as equity wins, but the data shows elite admissions tilted further toward wealthy applicants who could game the new criteria.
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Student loan forgiveness debates ignore the graduate-degree problem
The student debt crisis is overwhelmingly a graduate-school crisis. Forgiveness debates that ignore that fact end up subsidizing the wrong borrowers.
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Student loans are not always good debt
Student debt was sold as the safest borrowing in America. The math has changed. Here’s how to tell when a degree pays off and when the loan becomes the trap.