Yesterday, the White House posted a college scorecard, which is an interactive tool that provides users information about a college or university’s costs and value. This infographic shows the breakdown of value and cost of some of DFER staffs’ alma maters.
Read Charlie Barone’s post from yesterday, “State of the Union Puts Forth An Ambitious and Challenging Agenda For Obama 2.0” for more details on Obama’s education agenda for the next four years, which includes the need to address rising college costs and take the value and performance of colleges into account as part of accreditation and access to public funds, and making high quality pre-K available to all.
For a closer look, check out the PDF here.