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New York Times personal finance columnist Ron Lieber intends for his article, “High School Grades Could Be Worth $100,000. Time to Tell Your Child?” to be an indictment of a truly dysfunctional and damaging system, but that’s how I read it.
The article is an excerpt from Lieber’s new book,
The Price You Pay for College: An Entirely New Road Map for the Biggest Financial Decision Your Family Will Ever Make.
The book is targeted to the audience of middle-class (primarily white) folks for whom college is viewed as a necessity and a right, but who have been increasingly squeezed by a system that has made college more and more costly, aka, readers of