What's Driving College Costs Higher? : NPR

NPR quoted Kevin Carey, the director of the Education Policy Program at the New America Foundation, in its account of “What’s Driving College Costs Higher?”:

“There is now no doubt that certain kinds of students can learn a lot online. But people don’t just go to college to learn; they go to college to get a job. That’s the difference between a library and a college.”

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