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  The Case for a College ‘Shopping Sheet’ (or: Obama Reads ‘The Atlantic’!) 

  President Obama's speech last week on college affordability offered a reform package that amounted to a carrot and a stick and a magnifying glass. He proposed creating a $1 billion fund to invest in colleges that showed progress toward cost control. That's the carrot. He proposed tying federal aid to improvements in affordability. That's the stick. And he proposed a "shopping sheet" that would help students and their families see more clearly the true costs and benefits of attending a certain school. That's the magnifying glass. More »

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  Instead of shelling out $80K for a diploma, buy a luxury car. You’ll have a place to sleep when you can’t find a job. 

  Colleges and universities want your money. They shroud their avarice in flowing gowns and ivory towers, but they are not cradling knowledge so much as they are selling sheepskin. I began my college career in a different time. It was the late '90s, and the economy was booming. I started at a junior college in California, not knowing what I wanted to do. This, coupled with the fact that I was young and restless and was paying a total of about $600 a semester, did not impel me to any sort of urgency about completing my education.More »

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