Block, Sandra. “In a Recession, is college worth it? Fear of Debt Changes Plans.” USA
Today , 31 Aug. 2009. Web. 24. Feb, 2010. This article by Block talks about how if college is worth the cost during this recession. It talks about people who are struggling today with a college education. It also takes both sides. It talks about the good of the college education and people who are struggling without jobs with a college education.
Lillis, Michael. “ The Impact of Cost on College Choice: Beyond the Means of the
Economically Disadvantaged.” Journal of College Admission:1.200(2008):4-14. Print. This is a research project done in 2008 to discover how the cost of college affects how high school students choose where they will attend. They use questionnaires to ask questions that pertain to the topic. They set out to look how it affects the lower and middle classes and how class barriers affect where students attend school and if money is actually the issue to determine where people will attend.
I think the USA Today article is an interesting primary source that helps you make the case that the question "Is college worth the price?" is a common one today in this time of recession. But you need to recognize that it is not a scholarly source. I want to see you annotating five scholarly sources for our annotated bibliography.
ReplyDeleteThe other source is very good.
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