Sleepless Nights and Predatory Lending Tales

Well, it's my 7th wedding anniversary, and I'm up reading about predatory lending tales at 1:30 AM. I'll be filling you all in t...

In response to readers' requests: who ought I contact to demand for REAL change?

Many of you have asked me whom to write about the student lending crisis. Here's a list of the people I've reached out to already. A...

Quick Post - Student Lending Analytics:Tim Ranzetta's sensing a pattern . . .

Do you wonder why ? Not good, friends. NOT good at all. Pitt Community College Sees Record Enrollment Cohise College reaching toward record ...

Marjorie Dillon - Is there more to her story?

Tim Grant of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wrote a recent piece entitled, " Student loans put college graduate into deep financial hole ....

Let us not forget the messages of Teddy Kennedy - The Fight Goes on; The Cause Endures; The Hope Still Lives

On this late night in Washington, D.C., I want to remind all of you that the Honorable Senator Ted Kennedy would have been sympathetic to ou...

IMMEDIATE ACTION NEEDED - Sallie Mae mounting opposition against our movement!

Sallie Mae has come out with an aggressive ad campaign. They are claiming that American jobs are going to be lost as a result of reforming t...

The Relevance of Resurrecting and Recycling News: For My New Readers

Many of my readers have praised me for being prolific. They have also made remarks like, "I'm going to have to sit down and spend a...

United Professionals

I have been promoting the Forgive Student Loan Debt movement in a number of groups to which I belong on LinkedIn.com . Hint: Here's ano...

Comparing Notes

What have you, dear readers, been doing to help the cause? I don't mean to sound like a task master, and I know that you are not my pupi...

Why can't a woman become a social worker without it leading to financial ruin?

Gina Moss, a single mother, from Baltimore decided to go to college in the hopes of carving out a better life for herself and her daughter. ...

Ruminations on Sallie Mae's recent survey

Many of you have probably seen the recent stories in the mainstream press about a really, I mean, really (ahem) " reliable" surve...

Addendum to my Open Question

I suppose it doesn't really matter if my comments are awaiting moderation. What's most important: sharing my thoughts with my reader...

Open Question to Mr. Jacques Steinberg and the NYT: Why are my comments still awaiting moderation?

I posted two comments on the article here about Jim Sano and the Albany City Council asking Washington to forgive student loans. Here's...

And yet another posting about the College Board

Wow. The College Board's reputation continues to worsen. After another quick search for them on Google, I found a story here about kick...

Quod Est Veritas? Why isn't the Department of Education Putting Out Any Reports on Student Loan Debt?

So, I've been thinking about that data that was presented by the College Board in that frustrating article by Kim Clark. They manipula...

Quick Post: Community-Oriented Person Who Owes No Debt!

A few days ago I was speaking to a friend who is an attorney. He just so happens to be doing very well at the moment. Plus, he has no debt a...

BREAKING NEWS PART II: The College Board USED to be a LENDER

Clark described the College Board as "an organization made up of colleges." That could mean a host of things. For most readers, th...

Quick Bite: "Nelnet, Sallie Mae-Funded Senators Opposing Student Aid Reforms"

Michael Connery's posting here discusses how a bipartisan group of senators were not happy about Obama's eye on reforming aid and l...

Part II of the Resurrection of the Dept. of Ed. G-man and America's Collective Trauma

The archival dust from the binary system operating behind this clean-looking computer has settled. With the dust particles settling into the...

The Resurrection of the Dept. of Ed. G-man and America's Collective Trauma

This excellent blog - History and Education: Past & Present - hasn't been updated since December 2008. It is now an electronic archi...

Quick Remark: Debt Jubilee - Joe Costello's

The Huffington Pos t has picked up the idea of forgiving student loan debt. In Joe Costello's editorial blog, " The Case for Wiping...

Quick Notes - City of Albany Proposing Student Loan Forgiveness

The City of Albany is proposing student loan forgiveness . Albany Councilman and Chair of the Finance Committee, Jim Sano , learned about th...

Local News/Quick Post - "Revamped Curriculums Come to D.C. Public Schools"

Chancellor Michelle Rhee recently announced that new specialty programs ranging from the sciences and technology to arts and culture will ...

Local News/Quick Remarks - Public School Websites

I have been visiting websites for public schools, and most of them are in need of serious attention. That's putting it kindly. There are...

Bad news for our society: PUBLIC law schools becoming unaffordable

In a recent interview , Kevin R. Johnson, dean of the University of California, Davis School of Law , said, "I fear, given the fees ou...