POINT OF VIEW

The High Cost of College: an Increasingly Hard Sell

By WILLIAM STRAUSS and NEIL HOWE

Last spring's television season of The Apprentice featured a competition between the "Net Worth" and "Magna" teams (alias "Street Smarts" and "Book Smarts"). It was a battle between people who spent their early 20s outside of college — and who have profited nicely from that...

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