Daily Lumina News 040422

More than 9 million student loan borrowers are currently enrolled in income-driven repayment (IDR) plans, which are designed to help people who cannot afford to make large monthly payments. The plans promise loan cancellation after 20-25 years.
But an investigation by NPR offers striking evidence that these plans have been badly mismanaged by loan servicers and the U.S. Department of Education.

Robert Sternberg of Cornell University isn't the only one who thinks standardized tests fail to provide much useful information about whether students will be successful in college, careers, and life in general.
An opt-out movement to protest the tests has been gaining steam since the pandemic. Some experts suggest using this moment to change the way testing is done altogether.

Just before her 16th birthday, Cara Rothrock got her first job working at a 1950s roadside restaurant and ice cream stand called Polly's Freeze in a small town in Floyd County, Indiana.
That was 1994. Rothrock, now 43 and a third-grade teacher, still works at Polly’s nearly three decades later. She never quit. She never could.

Lincoln College senior Zak Luken described the campus as a "ghost town" last week as students and employees processed the hours-old announcement of plans to close the 157-year-old institution.
Lincoln College will close its doors permanently at the end of the spring semester in May. Leaders cite increased expenses from the pandemic, the accompanying decline in enrollment, and a cyberattack as reasons for the closure.