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in title, tags, annotations or urlHow the Student Loan Issue Could Determine the Next President - The Good Men Project - 0 views
6 Tips for Avoiding the Worst Student Loan Repayment Traps - The New York Times - 2 views
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aI added this link to the Student Personal Finance Internet Library http://www.textbooksfree.org/Students%20Personal%20Finance%20Internet%20Library.htm
The College-Loan Scandal: Matt Taibbi on the Ripping Off of Young America - Rolling Stone - 0 views
Taibbi: The Great College Loan Swindle - Rolling Stone - 1 views
Student Aid on the Web - 0 views
Welcome | Social Actions - 0 views
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This site aggregates those social action sites into one searchable site. Are your students looking for a cause to support? Maybe it's Darfu, or animal shelters, or homelessness, or climate change. One stop shop to find them.
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A site that helps you find the 'action' that matches your interests, so that you can help by volunteering, donating, signing, loaning, and more.
OpEdNews - Article: The Whole System Stinks - 3 views
Dissent Magazine - Debt Education - 0 views
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First, debt teaches that higher education is a consumer service. It is a pay-as-you-go transaction, like any other consumer enterprise, subject to the business franchises attached to education.
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Second, debt teaches career choices. It teaches that it would be a poor choice to wait on tables while writing a novel or become an elementary school teacher at $24,000 or join the Peace Corps. It rules out culture industries such as publishing or theater or art galleries that pay notoriously little or nonprofits like community radio or a women’s shelter. The more rational choice is to work for a big corporation or go to law school
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Fourth, debt teaches civic lessons. It teaches that the state’s role is to augment commerce, abetting consuming, which spurs producing; its role is not to interfere with the market, except to catalyze it. Debt teaches that the social contract is an obligation to the institutions of capital, which in turn give you all of the products on the shelves.
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Balancing Debt Against College Choice - 3 views
How Much Student Debt Is Too Much? - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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