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Baltimore Sun - Editorial

February 5, 2012

There's no doubt rising college tuition costs are making it harder for more students to enroll in school and stay there until graduation. And Mr. Obama is right that schools need to be smarter about controlling costs without sacrificing quality. But withdrawing federal aid from schools that fail to hold down costs would need to be done carefully, lest it produce just the opposite of the intended result. Everyone wants college to be more affordable. But officials are going to have to be a lot clearer about what they mean by affordability and how that standard will be applied.

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