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Last September, Timothy Burke, a professor of history at Swarthmore, wrote an influential essay at Inside Higher Ed in which he asserted that "the party's over" for higher ed's tuition and building binge.

Watch Bill Gates pushing the KIPP Schools hard - and also spreading the word with a book about KIPP.

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In a world where a degree no longer means a job, we need to prepare students for challenges ahead.

The two state-of-the-art TEAL classrooms alone cost $2.5 million, Professor Belcher said.

Technology is driving down the cost of teaching undergraduates. So why are tuition bills going up?