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But Jason Delisle, who has written extensively about the income-linked repayment programs as director of the federal education budget project at the New America Foundation, points to an Office of Management and Budget effort that took a stab at it. The O.M.B. assumed that 400,000 borrowers from 2012 through 2021, each with a beginning average loan balance of about $39,500, would each eventually receive loan forgiveness of about $41,000. Yes, you read that right. The forgiven debt will be more than the original balance, albeit many years later.

“These are great opportunities for helping children make connections between the learning in the game and the learning they are doing in the physical world,” said Lisa Guernsey, a director of the Early Education Initiative at the New America Foundation and one of the authors of the report.

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