The New York Times: "Concealing the Calculus of Higher Education"
Not long after the calculator became standard, a service called College Abacus emerged, allowing families to compare multiple schools at once. That spared them the laborious task of plugging the same data into multiple calculators many times over.
And how did many colleges respond? By blocking College Abacus’s access to their calculators. Imagine if Expedia or Kayak could not search for tickets on some of the most desirable airlines, and you get the idea.
Read more in The New York Times.
Not long after the calculator became standard, a service called College Abacus emerged, allowing families to compare multiple schools at once. That spared them the laborious task of plugging the same data into multiple calculators many times over.
And how did many colleges respond? By blocking College Abacus’s access to their calculators. Imagine if Expedia or Kayak could not search for tickets on some of the most desirable airlines, and you get the idea.
Read more in The New York Times.
The Washington Post: "Using data from College Scorecard, the lab created its own site, Pell Abacus"
Secretary King, along with other education leaders and computer scientists, talked to the students about applying to college and seeking science-related careers. The classroom visit also was an opportunity for King to pitch the government’s new College Scorecard initiative — a website that allows people to browse and compare colleges on different metrics, including graduation rates, post-college earnings of students who receive federal aid and more.
Leaders at ECMC Innovation Lab — the nonprofit arm of a student debt collection company — spoke to the students about computer coding. Using data from College Scorecard, the lab created its own site, Pell Abacus, which allows students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunches to see how much colleges would cost when taking financial aid into account.
Read the full article in The Washington Post.
Secretary King, along with other education leaders and computer scientists, talked to the students about applying to college and seeking science-related careers. The classroom visit also was an opportunity for King to pitch the government’s new College Scorecard initiative — a website that allows people to browse and compare colleges on different metrics, including graduation rates, post-college earnings of students who receive federal aid and more.
Leaders at ECMC Innovation Lab spoke to the students about computer coding. Using data from College Scorecard, the lab created its own site, Pell Abacus, which allows students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunches to see how much colleges would cost when taking financial aid into account.
Read the full article in The Washington Post.
The New York Times: "Comparing College Costs the Easy Way"
Not long after the calculator became standard, a service called College Abacus emerged, allowing families to compare multiple schools at once. That spared them the laborious task of plugging the same data into multiple calculators many times over.
And how did many colleges respond? By blocking College Abacus’s access to their calculators. Imagine if Expedia or Kayak could not search for tickets on some of the most desirable airlines, and you get the idea.
Read more in The New York Times.
On Track 2 was the co-founder of College Abacus, Abigail Seldin, 26, who has spent her life on a very fast track of her own. She skipped sixth grade, co-curated an exhibit at the University of Pennsylvania museum at age 20 and became a Rhodes scholar. In England, she met another Rhodes scholar, Whitney Haring-Smith, whom she later married. His mother happened to be the president of Washington & Jefferson College, and she fretted aloud about the families who were going to have to put all of their data into net price calculator after net price calculator until their eyeballs melted….
Read more in The New York Times.
