Over the past quarter-century, average college tuition prices nationwide have jumped 440 percent; this rate of increase is nearly four times that of the C.P.I. over the same period. To attempt to pay for these historic increases, students and their parents have amassed historic debt– at roughly $1.3 trillion, student loan debt now exceeds even total national credit-card debt for the first time in our nation’s history. Additionally, almost half of those who enroll in college fail to graduate and of those who do graduate, 36 percent show little to no increase in the critical thinking and writing skills that a degree is supposed to signify.
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Winners & Losers: Schools Starts Too Early, Dirty Books & Football
Winners & Losers is calling an end to our summer break. The Almanac says the last 8 p.m. sunsets in the central region of Texas will occur next week, so the days are getting shorter, and we can no longer stand by and let so many winners and losers go by unacknowledged. Here’s who is...
August 21, 2026