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- The Real Cost of Raising Kids
- In a lingering recession, should you put off having children? Should one parent stay home to cut childcare costs? Stacey Bradford gives editor-at-large Jill Schlesinger the lowdown on the true cost of child-rearing.
- Videos 2009-06-11
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- Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So Much
- Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So Much Ronald G. Ehrenberg. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000.In Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So Much, Ronald Ehrenberg provides a concise and compelling explanation of the influence of academic governance processes on rising university expenditures and tuition charges. While his explanation of the causes...
- Research articles 2003-09-01
- Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So Much.(Review)
- Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So Much. By Ronald G. Ehrenberg. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000. 322 pp. ISBN 0-674-00328-4, $39.95 cloth. The starting point for Ronald Ehrenberg's Tuition Rising is the stark reality that tuition costs at American private colleges and ...
- Research articles 2001-10-01
- Senator's defeat dims outlook for 'College Costs Savings' bill
- WASHINGTON -- The defeat of a North Carolina senator apparently has ensured the death of a nascent Senate bill that might have restricted the financial freedom of college and university foodservice programs. The bill, S.B. 2490, dubbed the College Costs Savings Act of 1998, was introduced last month by...
- Research articles 1998-11-23
- Catch Up on College Savings
- With no college savings plan in place for their younger daughters, John and Michelle Kazanjian need to start investigating scholarships and community colleges. Fortunately for their parents, the older Kazanjian girls have won generous grants:...
- Articles 2009-09-04
- Back to College? Six Smart Ways to Cut Costs on a New Degree
- Getting another degree or even just taking a course can boost your earning power and make you more employable. Here’s how to do it on the cheap. ...
- Articles 2009-08-25
- Graduating from College in Three Years
- Here's a way to dramatically slash the college tab:Â graduate in three years. As parents struggle with college costs, a small, but growing number of schools are offering three-year college degrees. Enthusiasts of the trend argue that there's no compelling reason why students can't...
- Blog posts 2009-06-16
- College Costs: Plan Ahead Instead of Cramming.(Originated from The Mobile Press-Register, Ala.)
- Aug. 19--One local financial advisor has some clients who begin saving so far ahead for their children's college education that their plans refer to "Baby 1 and Baby 2." "Unfortunately, for most people, it's more of a last-minute kind of thing," said Miles Ball, senior financial...
- Research articles 1996-08-19
- Six Great College Websites
- When I Googled "college," today, I got 681,000,000 hits. If I spent one minute on each of these websites, it would take more than 129 years to visit them all. And by then my great-great-great grandchildren would probably be ready for college. The amount...
- Blog posts 2009-07-16
- Six Ways to Pick an Independent College Counselor
- The independent college counselors, who charge as much for their services as a Mercedes Benz before its driven off the lot, give the rest of the profession a bad name. How could any college counselor's advice possibly be worth $30,000 or $40,000? While celebrity counselors attract...
- Blog posts 2009-05-22
- Groups Nationwide Making Rising Cost of College an Election Year Issue; Millions Mobilizing Voters To Make College More Affordable
- To: National Desk, Education ReporterContact: Toby Chaudhuri, 202-955-5665 or Bob Brandon, 202-331- 1550, both of Campaign for America's FutureWASHINGTON, Oct. 11 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Responding to public outrage about soaring college costs, a sharp rise in college loan interest rates and cuts to federal college aid programs, many organizations and...
- Research articles 2006-10-11
- Tips for Paying for College to Air on PBS Stations Nationally in Early February
- HIGGANUM, Conn., Jan. 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- February is the time of year when many high school students and their families are under great stress applying for financial aid and thinking about how they're going to pay for college. With college costs soarinHIGGANUM, Conn., Jan. 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- February...
- Research articles 2005-01-28
- Report Finds College Tuition Is Up Less than 5 Percent This Year.
- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 6 -- It probably didn't seem like it to parents and students who got bills this summer, but nationwide, college tuition and fees rose less than 5 percent for the current school year, according to a report on college...
- Research articles 1999-10-05
- Fidelity College Savings Indicator Finds Parents Are Projected to Meet Only 21 Percent of Future College Costs - Three Point Decrease from One Year Ago
- Current Economic Environment Impacting Parents' Ability to Stay on Track; Yet Preparedness Level Doubles for those Saving in a 529 Plan BOSTON -- Fidelity Investments([R]) today announced the results of its second annual College Savings Indicator CSI, which found that parents are projected to meet only 21 percent of...
- Research articles 2008-10-01
- A Competitive Twist on College Savings Plans
- As a response to rising college costs, many state governments created savings plans to make it easier to invest for college tuition (see "Family Finances," May). Now, financial-service giants Fidelity and TIAA-CREF have entered the fray, resulting in a little healthy competition for your college savings. New Hampshire chose...
- Research articles 1998-12-01
- Fidelity's College Savings Indicator Finds Parents Are Projected to Meet Only 24 Percent of Future College Costs
- Parents Utilizing a 529 College Savings Plan on Track to Meet 52 Percent of Expenses
- Research articles 2007-12-05
- Kennedy, Miller Outline College Affordability Plan; New Report: College Costs Up 42 Percent, Median Income Down 2 Percent
- WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 /U.S. Newswire/ -- With millions of students back in school, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., joined Campaign for America's Future co- director Robert Borosage on a teleconference call today calling on Congress to reverse the raid on student aid and ensure that deserving...
- Research articles 2006-09-13
- Celinda Lake to Join Students, Advocacy Groups to Discuss College Affordability; Pocket Book Issues Moving Voters
- To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor, Education ReporterContact: Luke Swarthout, 202-546-9707, or Bob Brandon, 202-331- 1550, both of Campaign for America's FutureNews Advisory:Pollster Celinda Lake will join a University of Illinois student and an Indiana parent affected by soaring college costs on a news conference call about college affordability on Tuesday.Lake...
- Research articles 2006-10-30
- New Jersey College Costs Rise, But Jumps Not as Bad as Rest of U.S.
- By William Conroy, Asbury Park Press, N.J. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 22--The cost of going to college in New Jersey keeps going up, but it's not going up at some schools this year as sharply as it is around the rest...
- Research articles 2003-10-22
- Parents of Pre-schoolers, Kindergartners Confront Future College Costs Early; National Survey Reveals Three out of Four Parents of Youngsters Have Begun to Save
- Business Editors BOSTON--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 1, 2000 Bulletin #4 in an Educational Series, August 2000 More than four million children will attend either nursery school or kindergarten this fall(1), and a national survey shows their parents are already planning ahead to pay for their future college education. Three...
- Research articles 2000-09-01
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