07-06-2026 00:57 via artsjournal.com

The education is only worth what you earn?

Good morning. Here are this week’s highlights:In Washington, the Education Department moved to cancel student loans for nearly every college arts program and to judge schools by their graduates’ earnings (The New York Times) — a logic that values an arts education purely by what its graduates later earn. Meanwhile, a loose symposium of writers spent the week worrying the opposite question: what is the human part of creative work actually worth, given that it’s the one par
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