The legislation includes raising interest rates on student loans to 6.8 percent, as opposed to 4.7 percent, and it could raise as high as 8.5 percent.

Students should apply now to lock in on lower interest rates. I believe they have from right now until the end of this academic year.

For the average student to incur that kind of debt, with interest, boggles my mind. I don't know how a student, being on their own, could afford to go to college.

such an egregious piece of special-interest legislation, it is almost shameless.

Our primary interest has been that we have reliable and valid measures of learning comparable in rigor. This legislation accomplishes that.

A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials.