ON THIS WEEK’S episode of Have a Nice Future, Gideon Lichfield and Lauren Goode talk to Paul Tough, education journalist and author of The Inequality Machine, about the future of higher education. Even as many Americans return to college campuses this month, rising costs and a lower return on investment have raised uncomfortable questions about just what those classes are all leading towards. Can college be saved?
Read our 2019 conversation with Paul Tough on “College, Calculus, and the Problem with the SAT.” Also check out WIRED’s education and college coverage.
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Gideon: Today, we’re just going to be super efficient. Uh, hold on a second. Have I got the doc? Where’s the doc?
[Music]
Gideon: Hi, I’m Gideon Lichfield.
Lauren: And I’m Lauren Goode.
Gideon: And this is WIRED’s Have a Nice Future, a podcast about how terrifyingly fast everything is changing.
Lauren: Each week, we talk to someone with big, audacious, and sometimes unnerving ideas about the future, and we ask them how we can all prepare to live in it.
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