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21st Century Scholar discusses Bill Tierney’s CNN Opinion piece. Below you’ll find an excerpt from the piece entitled “Why Subsidize Wealthy College Kids?” which ran yesterday on CNN.com. Randy Clemens provides commentary. The Cost of Public Goods by Randy Clemens Yesterday Bill published at CNN.com an op-ed piece about college tuition. The text generated a considerable amount of comments — [...]

The LA Times recently printed an article about the use of value-added, a statistical method to assess student growth. Steven Rivkin and Eric Hanushek, both well-known economists, support the new method. A few years ago, Rivkin published a useful and accessible description of value-added and educational policy. Value-added is now one of those trendy concepts that everyone seems [...]

If we accept President Obama’s challenge that we need to increase access to college dramatically by 2020, then we will need to add one million new students to the higher education system every year until 2020. How do we do that? The CSU and UC and cc systems are closing students out, not [...]

New research from Cappex.com  shows that 65 percent of counselors want more clear financial information on colleges' Web sites this college search season.

In California the "go-to" colleges, the ones students could depend on for a seat (at a discounted price) in a classroom of higher education, have locked their doors to new students.