The Kids Don’t Want to Go to College Anymore, and Why Would They?

ON THIS WEEK’S episode of Have a Nice Future, Gideon Lichfield and Lauren Goode talk to Paul Tough, education journalist and author of The Inequality Machine, about the future of higher education. Even as many Americans return to college campuses this month, rising costs and a lower return on investment have raised uncomfortable questions about just what those classes are all leading towards. Can college be saved?

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