Removing College Price Barriers : What Government Has Done and Why It Hasn't Worked.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Why College Matters -- 2. Understanding College Prices -- 3. The Changing Course of College Affordability -- 4. The Creation and Transformation of the Federal Student Aid Programs -- 5. The Costs and Consequences of The Transformation in Federal Student-Aid Policy -- 6. The States and College Affordability -- 7. Helping Families to Save for College -- 8. From Price to Participation: Assessing the Impact of the College- Affordability Programs -- 9. What Went Wrong And Why: Reviewing the Causes of Declining Affordability -- 10. Options to Improve College Affordability -- 11. A Plan to Remove College Price Barriers -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Why College Matters -- Chapter 2. Understanding College Prices -- Chapter 3. The Changing Course of College Affordability -- Chapter 4. Creation of Federal Student Aid Programs -- Chapter 5. Costs of Federal Student Aid Programs -- Chapter 6. The States and College Affordability -- Chapter 7. Helping Families to Save for College -- Chapter 8. From Price to Participation -- Chapter 9. What Went Wrong and Why -- Chapter 11. A Plan to Remove College Price Barriers -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

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