Obama And Romney: Wrong On Student Loan Interest Rates

Thursday, April 26, 2012 Obama And Romney: Wrong On Student Loan Interest Rates This piece comes to us courtesy of The Brookings Institution. It is written by Matthew M. Chingos, governance studies fellow at the Brown Center on Education Policy. Today President Obama is visiting the University of Iowa on the last day of a three-state tour promoting his proposal to keep the interest rate on new subsidized federal student loans at 3.4 percent. The rate will revert to 6.8percent in July if Congress does not extend the temporary rate reduction that was enacted in 2007. House Republicans Reject Colo. Immigrant Tuition Bill Again Students Speak Out Against Arrests In Public Schools Occupy, Obama Speak Out As National Student Debt Hits $1 Trillion British Royal To Visit Philly School For Low-Income Students Middle School Girls Expelled Over Facebook Jokes 'To Kill' Peers BLOG POSTS Kevin Welner: The Lesson of the Cupcakes: Fix Schools by Resisting Gimmicks and Heeding Evidence There are no miracle cures or magic beans. If we increase opportunities to learn, the result will be more learning; if we deny opportunities to learn, the result is equally predictable. Jon Siebels: School Bullying: To End It, We Must Change Our Culture Bullying is a problem in our culture. It's going to be hard to create a law that demands that people be nice to each other. I believe that like all cultural changes, this one needs to start in our own homes. Kari Kraus: Digital Preservation Is Cultural Literacy While digital preservation might not be the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about K-12 curricula, teaching kids about Web archiving, digitization, and media storage can serve as a gateway to hands-on learning in science and technology. Alan Singer: Pineapple That Ate Global History The fundamental problem with Common Core, the latest educational miracle solution that is being promoted by the National Governors Association and Pearson Educational, is that it is conceptually backwards. Carrie Jacobs, Ph.D.: Bully Is a Wake-Up Call... For Adults The film offers our youth nothing but a painful look at what they already see and feel almost daily. It poignantly highlights to young people how invisible their lives can be to adults, and just how unsupportive and inattentive adults can be.

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