Links for 2/10/09

John B. Taylor

The new study by my colleague Rick Hanushek and his coauthor Ludger Woessmann shows that bringing US education levels up to the level of Finland would raise real GDP by over $100 trillion measured in present discounted value terms over the next 80 years…

Jean Chatzky

If you can come up with a third of the money your kids need for college before they go, you are doing a good job. Think about paying another third out of your then-cash flow. And have them borrow the final third…

Robin Wilson

most professors and administrators on traditional campuses continue to dismiss for-profit colleges as inferior alternatives that cost too much, consume more than their fair share of federal student aid, and turn out unprepared graduates who default on their student loans…

But the for-profit sector is not only more robust than the rest of higher education, it is helping to force some changes in the way traditional colleges do business…

For-profit universities spend a lot of money to get students in the door…

Once students are enrolled, for-profit institutions work hard to hold on to them…

Keith Hampson talks with Rich Vedder.