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Donate   • Morning Bell: A Higher Education Revolution
Speaking on Friday at the University of Michigan, President
Obama declared, “I want this to be a big, bold, generous country
where everybody gets a fair shot, everybody is doing their fair
share, everybody is playing by the same set of rules. That’s the
America I know. That’s the American I want to keep. That’s the
future within our reach.” How did the President propose to
achieve his goal? The wrong kind of federal intervention into
higher education with the goal of bringing down the cost of
attending college.      The President is right to highlight the
rising cost of higher education. Tuition and fees continue to
shoot through the roof, now exceeding $17,000 per year, rising
on average 8.3 percent at public universities this year. That
means medium-income Americans are struggling to send their kids
to college, and graduates are leaving school with monstrous
debt. Last year in America