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BOULDER, Colo. ONCE upon a time in America, baby boomers paid for college with the money they made from their summer jobs. Then, over the course of the next few decades, public funding for higher education was slashed. These radical cuts forced universities to raise tuition year after year, which in turn forced the millennial generation to take on crushing educational debt loads, and everyone lived unhappily ever after. This is the story college administrators like to tell when theyre asked to explain why, over the past 35 years, college tuition at public universities has nearly quadrupled, to $9,139 in 2014 dollars. It is a fairy tale in the worst sense, in that it is not merely false, but rather almost the inverse of the truth. The conventional wisdom was reflected in a recent National Public Radio series on the cost of college. So its not that colleges are spending more money to educate students, Sandy Baum of the Urban Institute told NPR. Its that they have to get that money from someplace to replace their lost state funding and thats from tuition and fees from students and families. Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/opinion/sunday/the-real-reason-college-tuition-costs-so-much.html?_r=0