Libby Nelson
Former Editorial Director, Politics & Policy
Latest articles by Libby Nelson
The surprising bipartisan consensus about paying back student loans with payments that vary with your income.
A new paper suggests that colleges raise their prices when students get more financial aid. Here’s what two decades of research says about the issue.
The video features eye-popping amounts of debt. But these stories aren’t typical.
Her plan would enable students to attend a public university without needing to take out loans to pay tuition.
It showed a deep divide in Republican education policy.
America was Googling him before the debate, and they were definitely Googling him after the debate.
It’s hardly a complete list of all his misogynistic statements.
“I think the states ought to create these standards,” Bush said. “If states want to opt out of Common Core” — as seven states have — “fine, make sure your standards are high.”
The solution might not be less summer vacation, but more equal summer vacation.
“If all we’re doing is making cheaper or free a system in which the failure rate is so high, that doesn’t get the country where we need to go,” Duncan said in an interview.