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"Student Debt: Should College Tuition be Free?"

Source:
Price, Tom. "Student Debt: Should College Tuition be Free?" CQ Researcher 18 November 2016, Vol. 26, Issue 41, p965-988. Academic Search Complete. Web. 25 October 2017.

Summary:
This source provides a highly comprehensive perspective of the college system, regarding the rising costs of tuition, increasing student loan debt, and the conflicting views of causality and possible solutions. The Author, Tom Price tackles a wide array of issues and concerns while remaining unbiased and presenting multiple viewpoints where experts disagree, such as do increased government subsidies contribute to the rise in tuition, and are schools doing what they can to keep cost down. He explores the chronology of key events leading us to today, current and recent proposals, such as Obama’s proposal to provide tuition at two-year colleges, European countries providing free tuition, and For-profit schools. Explanations are provided on different types of student loans and a forum for both pro and con views on free public college tuition from experts, Morley Winograd, President and CEO, Campaign for Free College Tuition and Rick Staisloff, Founder, RPKGroup, A Higher-Education Consulting Firm. Mr. Price leaves you with the overall sense that the current system is broken and needs to be ameliorated. To overcome the present issues, involvement from state and federal lawmakers, and colleges and universities will be needed.

Quality:
This appears to be a very high-quality source. As noted in the article; "Tom Price is a freelance journalist, former correspondent in the Cox Newspapers Washington Bureau and author or co-author of five books including, Changing the Face of Hunger: One Man’s Story of How Liberals, Conservatives, Democrats, Republicans and People of Faith are Joining Forces to Help the Hungry, the Poor, and the Oppressed." Mr. Price’s research, data and cited sources provide a wealth of information and it is evidence to the sheer amount of time involved to crafting this article. His ability to remain unbiased and present multiple sides to the issues and proposed solutions is highly admirable. The Bibliography, The Next Step and the For More Information sections in the article provides the reader with additional quality sources on the topics as well.

Issues:
The article is limited in presenting the issues to the reader in an unbiased and informative overview, as once the reader fashions an informed opinion on free tuition, no guidance is given on how to proceed to help enact changes.

Key Words and Phrases:
College Tuition
Financial Aid
Scholarships
Education
Student Loans
Economics
Student Debt
Personal Finances
Student Loans

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