March 30, 2007

'Financial Barriers' to College

To the Editor:

With his insider's perspective on the work of the National Commission on the Future of Higher Education, Robert Zemsky perpetuates a myth regarding college access for disadvantaged students ("The Rise and Fall of the Spellings Commission," The Chronicle Review, January 26). He states, "I had already pretty much concluded that the argument over higher education's affordability was something of a sham," and that disadvantaged students are not attending college because of

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