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Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Movers and Shakers on the Tuition Bus

The original Shakers didn't have a bus.
From Inside Higher Ed: President Obama plans to take on rising tuition prices with speeches later this week that the White House promises will include fresh, serious proposals. But those claims were met largely with skepticism here, even from supporters of the president’s repeated pledge to shake up higher education. On Tuesday the White House distributed a message from Obama in which he said would seek to make college more affordable with “real reforms that would bring lasting change.” The president said he would release the plan’s details during a two-day bus tour that begins Thursday...

The president means business, an Obama spokesman this week told the White House press corps. And the administration is keeping a tight lid on the plan until Thursday.
“It’ll be good,” the spokesman said...

Full article at http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/08/21/obama-plan-college-costs-coming-week

It's not even Thursday yet, but already we can feel it:


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