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Shermer, Elizabeth Tandy,

Indentured students : how government-guaranteed loans left generations drowning in college debt / Elizabeth Tandy Shermer. - 1 online resource (viii, 382 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Drowning in debt -- Honorably financing college -- Will work for school -- A bill of rights for only some GIs -- The fizzled response to Sputnik -- Federally guaranteed students -- Reauthorizing the loan industry -- Bankers lose their sweetheart deal -- Epilogue: A brave new world of indentured students.

"It is widely understood that student loan assistance has inflated college tuition, student debt, and lender profits. Less often recognized is that these outcomes were intended. Elizabeth Tandy Shermer uncovers the history of federal student loans, showing that they were designed to appease constituencies opposed to affordable higher education"--

ISBN: 9780674269798 0674269799 9780674269804 0674269802

Source: 385C88E5-CB2F-4E5F-8327-2FECFF15C992 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com 22573/ctv33wkgc7 JSTOR

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Federal aid to higher education--History.--United States
Student loans--History.--United States
College costs--History.--United States
Debt--History.--United States
Educational equalization--History.--United States
Aide de l'�Etat �a l'enseignement sup�erieur--Histoire.--�Etats-Unis
Pr�ets d'�etudes--Histoire.--�Etats-Unis
Dettes--Histoire.--�Etats-Unis
D�emocratisation de l'enseignement--Histoire.--�Etats-Unis
EDUCATION--Educational Policy & Reform--Federal Legislation.
EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / Federal Legislation
College costs
Debt
Educational equalization
Federal aid to higher education
Student loans

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
History

LC Class. No.: LB2342.4.U6 LB2342.4.U6 / S54 2021

Dewey Class. No.: 379.1/2140973