For years now, private college tuition has risen far faster than inflation, a fact that colleges have used a fancy theory called Baumol’s Law to explain away. Unfortunately for families who pay over $200,000 to send a child to …
As a new wave of high school students enter the college admissions horse race, here’s a bit of advice for their parents: Stop looking at your kid and worrying about why he doesn’t seem interested in getting into a top school. I…
On a recent Today Show Money 911 segment, a caller said she’d filed for bankruptcy — but that didn’t free her from her student loans. She then asked how bankruptcy would affect her ability to get more student loans. Clearly, s…