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• Should 'Private Equity' Pay for Junior's College? (BusinessWeek)
• House boosts college aid for students in need (AP)
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• House backs Obama's bid to revamp student loans (Reuters)

Should 'Private Equity' Pay for Junior's College? (BusinessWeek) Posted: 22 Mar 2010 05:08 AM PDT BusinessWeek - Two college sports foster madness in American households come late March: basketball and mailbox-watching. Yes, 'tis the season when millions of high school seniors and their parents find out their college options, from where the applicants have been accepted to what kind of financial aid they'll receive. But with all the PhDs, MBAs, and other lettered luminaries produced by the American educational system, why haven't we come up with a better way to pay for college educations? No matter how you slice the numbers, the payoff from a college degree is high. ...

House boosts college aid for students in need (AP) Posted: 21 Mar 2010 08:43 PM PDT AP - Riding the coattails of a historic health care vote, the House on Sunday also passed a broad reorganization of college aid that affects millions of students and moves President Barack Obama closer to winning yet another of his top domestic policies.

(AP) Posted: 21 Mar 2010 08:39 PM PDT AP - House passes increased college aid for students in need; ends reliance on private lenders.

House backs Obama's bid to revamp student loans (Reuters) Posted: 21 Mar 2010 08:38 PM PDT Reuters - The Democratic-led House of Representatives on Sunday approved President Barack Obama's bid to implement what would be the biggest overhaul in decades of the federal student loan program.

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