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Re-Visiting the Rural Rage Controversy
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April, 2024 Lincoln and Washington — Last month, when I wrote a mixed review of White Rural Rage , an important but flawed book about rural...
White Rural Rage, Reviewed
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March, 2024 Lincoln and Washington — White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy , a new book by political scientist Thomas Schaller...
Reject the Proposed Price-Fixing Settlement
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January, 2024 Washington — Because it is one of the largest, most-consequential higher education lawsuits in recent memory, federal Judge Ma...
Civil War Echos in a Puzzling Name Choice
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December, 2023 Lincoln — Looking recently into the family tree, I came across the name Abel McClellan Wimer, born 1869, son of John Elias Wi...
FAFSA Delays Are Only Part of the Problem
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December, 2023 Washington — A bipartisan group of thirty-seven U.S. senators recently wrote urgently to the Secretary of Education, trouble...
The Causes of National Student Loan Dysfunction
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November, 2023 Washington — Is the nation's long-running student loan imbroglio a failure of program implementation or are its causes mo...
Crackdown Welcome, but Decades Too Late
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October, 2023 Washington — Welcome news from the U.S. Department of Education: it is finally cracking down on student loan servicers that...
No One Looks Good in Prison Deal
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September, 2023 Lincoln — Seldom is a public policy deal struck that does not have winners somewhere along the way, but the recent state pr...
Time for the Big Fix in U.S. Higher Education
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August, 2023 Washington — Now is a propitious time to fix much of what's wrong in U.S. higher education pricing, admissions, and financi...
DOJ and the Student Loan Crisis
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August, 2023 Washington — How much of the nation's student loan crisis can be attributed to the Department of Justice? It's a ques...
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