Soaring Tuition is Making College Unaffordable. We Can Fix This. - Commentary

Steve Klinsky, founder and CEO of the nonprofit Modern States Education Alliance, founder of New York State's first charter school and chairman of the advisory board of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s Program on Education Policy and Governance, writes:

The cost of just one year of college education in the United States has skyrocketed to an average of $38,000, putting better job prospects, higher lifetime earnings and perhaps the most important key to socioeconomic mobility in this country out of reach for more and more Americans. Average tuition at public and private U.S. universities has more than doubled in cost since 2005, according to U.S. News data. It doesn’t have to be this way.