Education, without the degree

Education, without the degree

"You don't have to go to college."

This is the sincere advice I've started giving to parents and teens about going to a four-year, residential, selective college, which has become expensive, wasteful, and hard to justify. I've lived next to Boston's college campuses for almost 20 years, and statistics show many of the students I've met are headed to debt and disappointment. Fortunately, the technology revolution is providing new ways to become highly educated, and "going to college" is no longer mandatory for so many who believe that it is.

Courting millennials, Clinton promises free tuition
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Courting millennials, Clinton promises free tuition

Evan Lips

PHILADELPHIA — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton made it clear this week during a campaign stop at Temple University just how desperate she is for the millennial vote.

In an about-face from her proposal released in the summer of 2015, Clinton on Monday announced she and former rival U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) have come up with a plan that "makes public college tuition free for working families and debt-free for everyone."

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