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How federal and state policies gauge colleges' value: Key podcast

Inside Higher Ed

We have tons of evidence, good causal evidence, that for an additional year of postsecondary education, earnings are going to increase by between 8 and 10 percent. We need to ensure those workers are able to afford the education, through scholarships or through employer partnerships. The problem is all in the variation.

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Passionate pleas for and against tuition-sharing agreements

Inside Higher Ed

OPMs “imported the worst features of predatory for-profit institutions into traditional higher education and normalized them through ubiquity,” said Barmak Nassirian, vice president for higher education policy at Veterans Education Success, an advocacy group.