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Biden's Student Loan Cancellation Plan: Too Good to Be True?

Policy Chats

About Steven Brint : Steven Brint is a Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Sociology at the University of California, Riverside. His research focuses on a wide variety of political and social topics, but he has a special interest in the policy analysis of higher education.

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Biden's Student Loan Cancellation Plan: Too Good to Be True?

Policy Chats

About Steven Brint : Steven Brint is a Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Sociology at the University of California, Riverside. His research focuses on a wide variety of political and social topics, but he has a special interest in the policy analysis of higher education.

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Insights from a leading researcher-practitioner partnership, between Stanford University and San Francisco’s school district: An interview with Laura Wentworth, California Education Partners – Episode #161

Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

Launched in 2009, the partnership matches researchers from Stanford’s Graduate School of Education with district leaders to create research projects to directly inform the school district’s work in terms of policies, practice and scholarship to maximize student outcomes. To learn more, we are joined by Laura Wentworth ( @laurawent ).

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Lessons from policy theories for the pursuit of equity in health, education and gender policy

Paul Cairney

This post first appeared on the Policy & Politics blog. It summarizes an article published in Policy & Politics. Could policy theories help to understand and facilitate the pursuit of equity (or reduction of unfair inequalities)? We are producing a series … Continue reading →

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Government Mortgage Interest Rates: A Serious Discussion about the Intertwined Topics of Risk Adjustment and Cross-subsidies

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The RFI document 20 itself has given the FHFA an opportunity to explain what it did and why and to educate the public on various aspects of the topic. 12] Creditworthiness depends on an educated estimate of the risk of loss. On May 15, the FHFA issued a request for information (RFI) on the pricing grids. It is discussed below. [19]