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Punching a Hole in the Higher Education Bubble?

By Ben Boychuk
Thursday, November 12 2015

At the risk of allowing a wish to replace a thought, maybe the student unrest on college and university campuses across the country this week and last will hasten the collapse of the higher education bubble. Let’s face it, it’s long overdue. America spends far too much money on far too many student amenities and far too little on education. In the 2012-2013 academic year, post-secondary schools — public, private and for-profit — spent $499 billion. Of that, 27 percent went to classroom instruction at public institutions, compared with 33 percent at private universities…

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