Danny Vinik

What grade is too young for college recruiting to start? 9th grade? 8th? 6th? On July 26, the University of Washington announced it had received a verbal commitment from 14-year-old quarterback Tate Martell. Yes, a 14-year-old. The following day, LSU jumped in on the action by offering a scholarship to Dylan Moses, who hasn’t even […]

The Treasury Department’s top economist has chimed in on tuition costs: families are shouldering a greater share of college costs than ever before. College students are graduating with increasingly high levels of debt. Total student debt surpassed total credit card debt in August 2010 and topped $1 trillion for the first time this past year. […]

Think you’re an expert on zombies from Scooby Doo on Zombie Island and Dawn of the Dead? Well, can you produce a model the zombie brain? Neuroscientists Bradley Voytek and Timothy Verstynen are doing just that: Working on their own time and drawing from their extensive knowledge of the zombie genre, they went through standard […]

The New York Times reported on Tuesday that 12 new universities are partnering with Coursera, an online education platform, to offer over 100 massively open online courses (MOOCs) expected to attract over a million users. The piece stated that one of the schools, the University of Washington, was even going to offer these MOOCs for […]

The Chronicle of Higher Education recently ran nine essays by various education experts on whether higher education has become an “engine of inequality.” Of the nine short responses, George Leef, the Director of Research for the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, was the only one to disagree, believing that government policies have caused greater […]

Yesterday, the Department of Education proposed new rules to ease and clarify the discharge process for disabled borrowers and create a new income-contingent payment system for borrowers. The new federal student loan regulations would amend the Federal Perkins Loan program, the Federal Family Education Loan program and the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan program […]

The New York Times is reporting today that the online education platform Coursera is partnering with 12 new schools to bring dozens of online classes to students around the globe. The brainchild of two Stanford University computer scientists, Coursera offered 43 courses from Stanford, Michigan, Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania last year and registered […]

There has been a lot written about the scandal at Penn State – from the conviction of Jerry Sandusky on 45 counts of child sex abuse to the tarnished legacy of Joe Paterno – but the media has written less about how the National Collegiate Athletic Association will respond to the situation. As the organizer […]