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Erik Carter / The Atlantic; Getty What the Student-Loan Debate Overlooks
President Biden’s loan-forgiveness plan offers younger Americans the same benefits that Boomers have been afforded all along.
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Matteo Minnella / A3 / Contrasto / Redux Biden’s Student-Debt Rescue Plan Is a Legal Mess
The good news is that there’s still time to fix it.
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic ; Getty How Student Debt Has Contributed to ‘Delayed’ Adulthood
The irony of attending college in the U.S. is that the burden of paying for it can prevent it from serving its purpose of launching young adults into stable, fulfilling lives.
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Andy Sacks / Getty The Trouble With Boutique Colleges
Americans need to think about the choices contributing to student debt.
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Peter Marlow / Magnum Actually, Canceling Student Debt Will Cut Inflation
Biden’s targeted loan forgiveness will help, not harm, the economy.
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Olivier Douliery / AFP / Getty Biden’s Student-Loan Gamble
Why loan forgiveness is politically risky
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Erica Lansner / Redux Biden’s Cancellation of Billions in Debt Won’t Solve the Larger Problem
Belatedly canceling some debt is what a country does when it refuses to support students up front.
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The Atlantic How to Fix the Bias Against Free Speech on Campus
Universities should limit bureaucrats’ power to investigate students and professors for expressing their opinions.
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The Atlantic The SAT Isn’t What’s Unfair
MIT brings back a test that, despite its reputation, helps low-income students in an inequitable society.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic; Getty The College-Admissions Process Is Completely Broken
But it doesn’t have to be.
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Gabriela Pesqueira / The Atlantic What College Students Really Think About Cancel Culture
Despite the common refrain from pundits, a grassroots movement is seeing politically divergent undergraduates come together for uncomfortable discussions.
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Paul Bersebach / Orange County Register / Getty Universities Need to Catch Up to the Post-vaccine Reality
Remote learning hurts students.
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Julien James The Football Game That Transcends Tradition
The historic rivalry between Florida A&M University and Bethune-Cookman University goes beyond sports.
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Ilana Panich-Linsman / The New York Times / … College Admissions Are Still Unfair
But when fancy schools like Amherst kill legacy preferences, they do get a little fairer.
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Adam Glanzman / Bloomberg / Getty Why the Latest Campus Cancellation Is Different
Following a Twitter outcry, a scientist was stopped from giving a lecture at MIT for reasons that had nothing to do with the lecture itself.
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Getty / The Atlantic Colleges Have a Guy Problem
A recent viral news story reported that a generation of young men is abandoning college. The pattern has deep roots.
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Alessandra Sanguinetti / Magnum 16 Things to Remember at College
Advice for my daughter: Do talk to your professors outside of class. Do notice the way the sky changes color. Don’t get too drunk.
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Getty; The Atlantic The University of California Is Lying to Us
Does getting right with contemporary concepts of anti-racism mean reviving one of the state’s most shameful traditions?
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H. Armstrong Roberts / ClassicStock / Getty How Colleges Tell Student-Parents They Don’t Belong
America’s higher-education system is designed for childless students who come to college right out of high school, and full of unnecessary obstacles for parents seeking a degree.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic / Getty How College Became a Ruthless Competition Divorced From Learning
It is a truth universally acknowledged that elite parents, in possession of excellent jobs, want to get their kids into college.
