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Bringing down college costs

Washington Post

December 7, 2011

Leaders of U.S. colleges and universities welcome Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s call for a national conversation about college costs [“High education,” editorial, Dec. 2]. For that conversation to be productive, however, two points must be emphasized.

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