James Harris Simons Interview

James Harris Simons co-invented a new mathmatics concept and became a billionaire philanthropist , donating funds to basic research and subsidizing mathematics education in the United States.

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Free College Education

Ana Campoy talks about the pros and cons of free college tuition programs as they are run in cities such as Dallas, Texas.

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Baumol's "Cost Disease" and the Price of Education

Timothy Lee explains William Baumol's economic theory, called cost disease , which explains why personnel-intensive services such as education are becoming more expensive than material goods which can be produced by automation. It is a problem of scaling and values.

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Funding For Accountability

Madeleine Will summarizes a study on efforts to tie future funding to student success.

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