Sara Mead in Macleans | 'Playtime's Over'
January 16, 2008Playtime's over (Macleans, Canada) He pointed to researchers like Sara Mead, who studied the data and concluded that "[t]he real story is not bad news about boys doing worse; it’s good...
View ArticleHigher Ed Watch.Org in The Washington Post | 'College Discount'
January 20, 2008Elite Ivy League students can expect a break on tuition. What about everybody else? (editorial, The Washington Post) No doubt places such as Yale, with an endowment of $22.5 billion,...
View ArticleMichael Dannenberg and Jason Delisle in CQ | "Student Aid: Will many...
January 25, 2008Student Aid: Will many low-income students be left out? (available for purchase from CQ Researcher online) ...The idea that having more lenders in the program improves customer service...
View ArticleMichael Dannenberg in NY Times | 'U.S. Ignores Finding on Lender'
January 26, 2008U.S. Ignores Finding on Student Lender (The New York Times) Michael Dannenberg, director of the education policy program at the New America Foundation in Washington, sharply criticized...
View ArticleMichael Dannenberg in AARP Bulletin | 'What An Outrage!'
January 28, 2008What An Outrage! The Money That Got Away (AARP Bulletin) Nelnet denies it broke any laws. Still, "for a good number of years, Nelnet had a river of dirty money flowing through it," says...
View ArticleSteve Burd in St. Louis Post-Dispatch | 'Loans Feeling Credit Crunch'
February 3, 2008Student loans feeling credit crunch, too (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) Those students, though, paid interest rates of up to 20 percent to finance their educational dreams. Stephen Burd,...
View ArticleStephen Burd in Pittsburg Post-Gazette | 'Market Doubts Hit Private Student...
February 12, 2008Market Doubts Hit Private Student Loans (Pittsburg Post-Gazette) ...Sallie Mae and others are experiencing a growing default rate. The sub-prime mortgage crunch has spilled over into...
View ArticleMichael Dannenberg in Cox News | 'House Democrats to Vote on Cutting Student...
February 14, 2008House Democrats to Vote on Cutting Student Loans (Cox News Service) ...Michael Dannenberg, director of the Education Policy Program at the New America Foundation, said the federal...
View ArticleNew America Foundation in Chronicle of Higher Education | 'President Bush: A...
February 15, 2008President Bush: A Friend of Higher Education After All? (The Chronicle of Higher Education, subcription only) ... Mr. Bush has, however, given researchers, and their colleagues...
View ArticleMichael Dannenberg in New York Times | 'As Lending Tightens, Education Could...
February 19, 2008As Lending Tightens, Education Could Suffer (New York Times) ...Not everyone believes that retrenchment in commercial education would be bad. “High-risk borrowers with low academic...
View ArticleMichael Dannenberg in Minneapolis Star Tribune | 'Students Pinched by Credit...
February 21, 2008Students Pinched by Credit Markets (Minneapolis Star Tribune) ..."There is zero danger that federal Stafford loans will not be available in the foreseeable future. Zero danger," said...
View ArticleSara Mead in New York Times | Teaching Boys and Girls Separately
March 2, 2008New York Times | Teaching Boys and Girls Separately . . . More recently, in what Sara Mead, an education expert at the New America Foundation, calls a “man bites dog” sensation, public and...
View ArticleMichael Dannenberg in University Wire news | "Student Loan Field Takes Defense"
March 5, 2008Student Loan Field Takes Defense (University Wire) . . . Michael Dannenberg, director of the education policy program for the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank investigating...
View ArticleJason Delisle in CongressDaily PM | 'Senate Budget Would Boost Advance...
March 10, 2008 Senate Budget Would Boost Advance Approps By $4 Billion (CongressDaily PM, subscription only) . . . "There's no reason to do it other than to increase spending," said Jason Delisle, an...
View ArticleNew America Foundation in Inside Higher Ed | 'A Student Loan Credit Crunch —...
March 12, 2008A Student Loan Credit Crunch — But for Whom? (Inside Higher Ed) . . . “Students with poor credit ratings, particularly those at trade schools whose graduates have poor repayment track...
View ArticleMichael Dannenberg in Inside Higher Ed | 'Hedging Bets on Student Loan...
March 13, 2008Hedging Bets on Student Loan Availability (Inside Higher Ed) . . . “I think he’s doing the right thing in seeking to calm fears of parents or financial aid officers scared by newspaper...
View ArticleLindsey Luebchow on WTOP Radio in DC | Top B-Ball Shools Have Poor Grad Rates
March 27, 2008WTOP Radio in DC | Top B-Ball Shools Have Poor Grad Rates New America Foundation Education Policy Analyst Lindsey Luebchow discussed the Annual Academic Sweet Sixteen bracket results with...
View ArticleLindsey Luebchow in Cleveland Plain Dealer | DC Group Ranks NCAA Teams by...
March 29, 2008Cleveland Plain Dealer | Washington Group Ranks NCAA Teams by Players' Graduation Rates Forget wins and losses. Disregard the strength of schedule. Pay no attention to margins of victory....
View ArticleSteve Burd in CQ Weekly | "In Student Loan Market, A Direct Approach"
April 6, 2008In Student Loan Market, A Direct Approach (CQ Weekly) . . . But private lenders who need help face a dilemma. "Lenders are sort of putting themselves in this weird spot, where on the one...
View ArticleSteve Burd in U.S. News | Look Twice at Loan Advice
April 15, 2008Look Twice at Loan Advice (U.S. News & World Report) . . . Stephen Burd, a senior research fellow at the New America Foundation, says many colleges are affordable without the help of...
View ArticleMichael Dannenberg in APM's Marketplace | Student Loans Are Getting Whacked
April 17, 2008APM's Marketplace | Student Loans Are Getting Whacked Bank of America and a unit of Citigroup have joined a growing list of lenders cutting back on student loan programs. At the same...
View ArticleSteve Burd in Reuters | "U.S. Student Loan Bill Advances, Bush Will Sign"
May 1, 2008 . . . Stephen Burd, senior research fellow at think tank New America Foundation, said some lenders were having financing problems. "We just don't think the government should let the loan...
View ArticleSara Mead in Politico | "Hopefuls' Education Plans Show Divides"
May 27, 2008 If McCain proposes an ambitious school voucher program, as he did in 2000, it will underline stark philosophical differences between the GOP and Democratic presidential candidates on...
View ArticleMichael Dannenberg in Los Angeles Times | 'Expand College Grants'
June 10, 2008 ..."If you really want to improve access for low-income kids, you have to reduce the amount people have to borrow and increase grant aid," says Michael Dannenberg, who directs education...
View ArticleStephen Burd in St. Petersburg Times | 'Castor Seeks Checkups on College...
June 18, 2008 Experts say Castor's proposed changes [to the federal student loan industry] are sorely needed, and could be made without putting an undue burden on government regulators... Such fixes...
View ArticleJason Delisle in San Antonio Express | 'College aid law offers partial relief...
June 30, 2008 ...In addition to financial aid, the law will also dole out matching grants aimed at boosting the number of first-generation and low-income college students, and will give $510 million to...
View ArticleHigher Ed Watch blog post in Inside Higher Ed | Quick Takes: Where Is Matteo...
July 18, 2008 (Quick Takes) - “Where in the World is Matteo Fontana?” That’s the question posed by Higher Ed Watch, a blog of the New American Foundation, about the former general manager of the...
View ArticleEducation Program event in Education Week | 'Obama/McCain Advisers Debate'
July 24, 2008 (Campaign K-12)-Today the forum was the New America Foundation, a Washington-based think tank and the advisers were the Ubiquitous Lisa Graham Keegan, a former Arizona schools chief,...
View ArticleEducation Program event in the Chronicle of Higher Education | 'Higher...
July 25, 2008 (Chronicle U.)-Sen. John McCain’s chief education adviser, Lisa Graham Keegan, found herself in a tough spot Thursday when asked by the moderator of a New America Foundation forum to lay...
View ArticleSara Mead in Education Week | ' Congress Approves New HEA'
August 13, 2008 The bill would reauthorize the Higher Education Act, which was last renewed in 1998 and has been due for an overhaul since 2003. The HEA governs a broad swath of federal student-aid and...
View ArticleMichael Dannenberg in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer | 'Bergeson Offers Fix...
August 28, 2008 With the presidential election still more than two months away, experts say it's too soon to tell how the law might be reformed. But there's likely to be a continued march toward...
View ArticleSara Mead on NPR's On Point with Tom Ashbrook | 'Beyond 'No Child''
September 9, 2008 How to improve under-achieving schools in America’s poorest communities has vexed policy makers for generations. President Bush’s No Child Left Behind law insists on accountability....
View ArticleMichael Dannenberg in the American Prospect | 'Another Student Loan Crisis?'
September 10, 2008"The vast majority of our schools report a very small number of students who still need loans at this time," says Richard Doherty, who heads the Association of Independent Colleges...
View ArticleSara Mead in The Morning News - Arkansas | 'Parenting Matters In Achievement...
September 11, 2008 Mandara was joined by Sara Mead, a senior research fellow at the New America Foundation, for a public discussion on the education of boys as part of the University of Arkansas...
View ArticleEducation Policy Program in New University | 'Bill of Education Passed'
September 22, 2008 The financial aid provisions of the Higher Education Opportunity Act have also come under scrutiny. In particular, the New America Foundation has accused Congress and the media of...
View ArticleJason Delisle in The Chronicle of Higher Education | 'Higher-Education Funds...
September 26, 2008 That policy change has made it less appealing for Congress to postpone paying for the Pell Grant program, says Jason Delisle, a former senior analyst on the Republican staff of the...
View ArticleMichael Dannenberg in the Associated Press | ' Campaigns Differ on How to...
October 1, 2008Michael Dannenberg, senior fellow with the New America Foundation and a former adviser to Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., says Obama's proposals take the problem of college affordability...
View ArticleMaryEllen McGuire in The National Journal | 'What's At Stake: Education'
October 4, 2008 After this Congress's failure to renew the six-year-old law, Obama and McCain will face the same grassroots pressure to act. No Child Left Behind requires states to set increasingly...
View ArticleMichael Dannenberg on the Brian Lehrer Show | '30 Issues: Higher Ed'
October 15, 2008Michael Dannenberg, senior fellow in the Education Policy Program at the New America Foundation, discusses the cost of college, as well as Obama and McCain's platforms on college...
View ArticleMaryEllen McGuire in the San Antonio Express | 'For Some Voters, College is a...
October 23, 2008MaryEllen McGuire, director of education policy program at the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank, said both platforms are fairly general, but Obama offers more details...
View ArticleMaryEllen McGuire in Education Week | ' K-12 Issues Will Await President'
November 3, 2008“There can be a case to be made that education becomes the vehicle that helps fuel the economy,” said MaryEllen McGuire, the director of the Education Policy Program of the New America...
View ArticleMichael Dannenberg in Inside Higher Ed | 'Helping Out With the Short List'
November 4, 2008Michael Dannenberg, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, also focused on governors. He suggested Roy Romer, who in addition to being the former governor of Colorado was also...
View ArticleBailout Plan for Student Loan Companies Might Hurt Students | Diverse Issues...
November 18, 2008“We are very wary of the government bailing out private student loan providers, many of whom engaged in predatory practices by pushing high-cost private loans on high-risk borrowers,”...
View ArticleMichael Dannenberg on WNYC | 'University Blues'
November 20, 2008Michael Dannenberg, Senior Fellow in the Education Policy Program at the New America Foundation and founder of the HigherEdWatch Blog ; and Catharine Bond Hill, president of Vassar...
View ArticleStudent Debt Grows; Financial Aid Application Rates Rise | Capital News Service
November 21, 2008"Private loans are a terrible tool for promoting college access," said Stephen Burd, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, a group dedicated to fixing challenges for the next...
View ArticleUM Football Players: Not as Brainy as Gators or Noles | Miami New Times
December 10, 2008 Now here's a little salt for those wounds: Both the Noles and the Gators made Higher Ed Watch'stop 25 list of teams based on academic achievement, ...
View ArticleAcademic Bowl Championship Series | ESPN/Tuesday Morning Quarterback
December 16, 2008Lindsey Luebchow of the New America Foundation asks that question here. She concludes that if academics were factored into big-college football, ...
View ArticleObama’s Choice of Duncan Wins Praise From Educators, Lawmakers | CQPolitics.com
December 16, 2008“His record in Chicago is a strong one,” said Sara Mead, director of the Early Education Initiative at the New America Foundation. ...
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