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• La. state money running low for higher education
• 10 Colleges Where Graduates Have a Low Average Debt Load
• Insight: Sweden rethinks pioneering school reforms, private equity under fire

La. state money running low for higher education Posted: 10 Dec 2013 12:32 PM PST Louisiana's higher education leaders are trying to work out a financing deal to keep the state's public colleges from running low on state cash to operate their campuses. Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration ...

10 Colleges Where Graduates Have a Low Average Debt Load Posted: 10 Dec 2013 07:28 AM PST The U.S. News Short List, separate from our overall rankings, is a regular series that magnifies individual data points in hopes of providing students and parents a way to find which undergraduate or graduate programs excel or have room to grow in specific areas. More college students are graduating with student loan debt, and the amount of debt is increasing, according to new research from The Institute for College Access and Success. While many students are graduating with a hefty bill, some are graduating with relatively small debt. Princeton University students who borrow money graduate with the least average amount of debt, according to data submitted to U.S. News by 1,006 ranked schools.

Insight: Sweden rethinks pioneering school reforms, private equity under fire Posted: 10 Dec 2013 01:53 AM PST By Niklas Pollard STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - When one of the biggest private education firms in Sweden went bankrupt earlier this year, it left 11,000 students in the lurch and made Stockholm rethink its pioneering market reform of the state schools system. "I think we have had too much blind faith in that more private schools would guarantee greater educational quality," said Tomas Tobé, head of the parliament's education committee and spokesman on education for the ruling Moderate party. In a country with the fastest growing economic inequality of any OECD nation, basic aspects of the deregulated school market are now being re-considered, raising questions over private sector involvement in other areas like health. Two-decades into its free-market experiment, about a quarter of once staunchly Socialist Sweden's secondary school students now attend publically-funded but privately run schools, almost twice the global average.

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