Statistics are boring, at least 85 percent of the time. Even the compelling ones tend to make your eyes glaze over, reports The Daily Caller. This little statistics-filled essay about the higher-education bubble aims to keep you interested, though, by relating said higher-education bubble to something we can all identify with: the 1980 movie “Caddyshack.” “Caddyshack” is a lot of things. It’s hilarious. It’s a loosely-plotted, deeply-flawed yet brilliant American classic held together, somehow, by a dancing gopher. It also happens to be a museum-quality time capsule concerning consumer prices…
Laura Ascione is the Editorial Director at eSchool Media. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland's prestigious Philip Merrill College of Journalism.
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