{"id":25383,"date":"2011-11-30T08:43:21","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T13:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=25383"},"modified":"2011-11-30T15:38:09","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T20:38:09","slug":"education-secretary-arne-duncan-calls-for-urgency-on-college-costs-lewin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/11\/30\/education-secretary-arne-duncan-calls-for-urgency-on-college-costs-lewin\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Secretary Arne Duncan calls for urgency on college costs [Lewin]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/30\/education\/duncan-calls-for-urgency-in-lowering-college-costs.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Official calls for urgency on college costs<\/strong><\/a>&#8212; from the New York Times by Tamar Lewin<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">As Occupy movement protests helped push spiraling college costs into the national spotlight, Education Secretary Arne Duncan urged higher-education officials Tuesday to <strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u201cthink more creatively \u2014 and with much greater urgency\u201d about ways to contain costs and reduce student debt.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cThree in four Americans now say that college is too expensive for most people to afford,\u201d Mr. Duncan said. \u201cThat belief is even stronger among young adults \u2014 three-fourths of whom believe that graduates today have more debt than they can manage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Also see:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.straighterline.com\/blog\/post.cfm\/outrage-new-york-times-reports-that-ohio-state-s-football-coach-to-earn-up-to-4-million-a-year\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Outrage: New York Times Reports that Ohio State\u2019s Football Coach to Earn up to $4 Million a Year<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from StraighterLine.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Addendum later on 11\/30\/11:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.gov\/blog\/2011\/11\/our-students-deserve-no-less\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Our Students Deserve No Less<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; from ed.gov by Cameron Brenchley<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10129\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.gov\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/11292011-AD-Las-Vegas-43.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[10128]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"11292011 - AD - Las Vegas 43\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ed.gov\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/11292011-AD-Las-Vegas-43.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"365\" \/><\/a>(Official Department of Education Photo by Joshua Hoover)<\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cMy chief message today is a sobering one,\u201d said Secretary Duncan yesterday at the annual Federal Student Aid conference in Las Vegas, Nev. \u201cI want to ask you, and the entire higher education community, to look ahead and start thinking more creatively\u2014and with much greater urgency\u2014about how to contain the spiraling costs of college and reduce the burden of student debt on our nation\u2019s students.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Official calls for urgency on college costs&#8212; from the New York Times by Tamar Lewin Excerpts: As Occupy movement protests helped push spiraling college costs into the national spotlight, Education Secretary Arne Duncan urged higher-education officials Tuesday to \u201cthink more creatively \u2014 and with much greater urgency\u201d about ways to contain costs and reduce student [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,57,159,72,211,36,35,239,321],"tags":[52,290,653,606,733,586,585,91,251,637,728,572],"class_list":["post-25383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-side-of-he","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-dangers-of-the-status-quo","category-daniel-s-christian","category-funding-grants","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-new-business-models","category-united-states","tag-budgetary","tag-cost-of-getting-an-education","tag-dangers-of-the-status-quo","tag-daniel-s-christian","tag-financial-aid","tag-future-of-higher-education","tag-game-changing-environment","tag-grants","tag-new-business-models-in-he","tag-perfect-storm","tag-united-states","tag-walmart-of-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25383"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25436,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25383\/revisions\/25436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}