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...that American icon and the important people in his life. For more than 50 years, I have been fascinated by the Civil War, Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and the issues surrounding slavery. If your report had been available years ago, I could have saved the tuition for a couple of undergraduate and graduate courses as well as a few feet of Lincoln books in my library. Ah, but the fun is in the reading and discovering what Lincoln the man reveals to different scholars...
Each year, hundreds of high-school and college students from across the nation and around the world descend on Harvard’s grassy campus in Cambridge to attend the Summer School, forking over more than $4,000—the equivalent of an entire semester’s tuition at some state schools—to take a course in Harvard’s hallowed halls...
...sure what she will do if she doesn't go to college. She can't work legally, though she might do some baby sitting. But her long-term plan is clear. "I'd like to become an American citizen," she says. That would be one way to solve the tuition problem. --With reporting by Bud Norman/Wichita
Surprisingly, money is not the big issue. In Texas, which in 2001 became the first state to grant such tuition benefits, fewer than 8,000 undocumented immigrants--out of a public college population of more than 1 million--got reduced rates last year. Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies, a think tank that favors tighter immigration rules, says it is more a matter of principle: "Extending in-state tuition is a way of legitimizing their presence. It is back-door amnesty...
Education is a tricky battleground. "There's an emotion to it that makes it different from day laborers hanging out in front of the Home Depot," says Krikorian. In North Carolina an in-state-tuition bill died in committee in May after talk radio helped stir a furor "one hundred times bigger than Terri Schiavo," in the words of Kevin Miller, a host at WPTF in Raleigh. Many listeners were worried that expanded in-state rates would not only suck up taxpayer dollars but would also make it harder for their kids to get into top state schools like...