In the U.S., the price of a college education is absolutely rising: the cost of a four-year degree from a private college has more than doubled in thirty years, and the cost of a degree from a public college has tripled. Source: https://trends.collegeboard.org/sites/default/files/2017-trends-in-college-pricing_0.pdf

The most important step we need to take in educating everyone is resetting our expectations for what learning looks like. We need to stop arguing about the best way to measure "progress", and crtically examine the extent to which effectively measuring learning outcomes is even possible, much less helpful, and how and why we define "progress" the way we do