How federal financial aid has distorted higher education?

Interesting economic argument, but I have a difficult time seeing how any of this will change in the immediate future. http://www.american.com/archive/2012/august/the-high-cost-of-college-an-economic-explanation

Cheescake Factory meets medicine?

From the author of "The Checklist Manifesto," this interesting piece about chain restaurants and their potential applicability to the medical world might have similar applicability to our education world. I really don't think that it's a question of if but rather of when such changes will occur and the extent to which they will occur. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/08/13/120813fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=all