President Obama's College Scorecard

Updated Friday 2/15/13
President Obama's State of the Union Address mentioned the new "College Scorecard" -- which is a new service provided by the U.S. Department of Education that is designed to help students and their families identify the colleges that best meet their needs. More specifically, the Scorecard is designed to help them pick the colleges that provide them the best education for the tuition they can afford. You will find the link to the current version here:

The 10K-BA ... an Idea Whose Time Has Come

 Updated on Saturdy 2/16/13
Here's a quote that inspired me when I was a grad student in urban planning many, many decades ago. I beg the reader's indulgence in advance for the now politically incorrect male chauvinism of its phrasing: