Student Debt: Rhetoric and Realities of Higher Education Financing

by Sandy Baum

This book analyzes reliable evidence to tell the true story of student debt in America. One of the nation’s foremost experts on college finance, Sandy Baum exposes how misleading the widely accepted narrative on student debt is. Baum combines data, research, and analysis to show how the current discourse obscures serious problems, risks misdirecting taxpayer dollars, and could deprive too many Americans of the educational opportunities they deserve. This book and its policy recommendations provide the basis for a new and more constructive national agenda to make paying for college more manageable.

Genres: Nonfiction, Education

133 pages, Hardcover

Published July 20, 2016

Reviews

[Tyler · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book does a good job articulating why student loans are needed in the college financing equation, with the author being opposed to forgiving all student loan debt.

[Mills College Library]

378.362 B3473 2016