Financial aid desperately needs rethinking

As promised by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, the Department of Education recently released its new “groundbreaking redesign” of the College Scorecard.
Launched in 2015, the College Scorecard tool was created to help families weigh the costs and benefits of their college options. But it only included institutional-level data on a range of average factors like first-year median earnings and median debt loads. The new version of the Scorecard is certainly an improvement. It provides