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Is college worth the cost? Groundbreaking filmmaker Andrew Rossi asks the critical question about the value of higher education, revealing how colleges have come to embrace a business model that often promotes expansion over quality learning. With student-loan debt now over the one trillion dollar m...

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Other Authors: Rossi, Andrew (director of photography.), Delbanco, Andrew, 1952- (interviewee (expression)), Thiel, Peter, 1967- (interviewee (expression)), Kamenetz, Anya, 1980- (interviewee (expression)), Beck, Chad (Film editor), Coffman, Andrew (director of photography.), Hultquist, Ian (composer (expression)), Sarkinen, Byran (director of photography.)
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
Spanish
Language Notes:English or Spanish dialogue; Spanish, Portuguese, French or English subtitles; closed-captioned in English.
Published: Hollywood, California : Paramount, [2014]
Subjects:
College costs > United States.
Universities and colleges > United States > Finance.
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives > United States.
Student aid > United States.
College costs.
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives.
Student aid.
Universities and colleges > Finance.
United States.
Spanish dialogue.
French subtitles.
Spanish subtitles.
Portuguese subtitles.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Feature films.
Feature films > United States.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
DVDs.
DVD-Video discs.
Videodiscs.
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Summary:Is college worth the cost? Groundbreaking filmmaker Andrew Rossi asks the critical question about the value of higher education, revealing how colleges have come to embrace a business model that often promotes expansion over quality learning. With student-loan debt now over the one trillion dollar mark, the once-great American institution is at a breaking point. The film explores the current education crisis from the halls of Harvard, to community colleges, to online learning.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:DVD, region 1, NTSC, widescreen 16:9; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Audience:MPAA rating: PG-13; for some suggestive and partying images.
Awards:Official Selection, Sundance Film Festival, 2014.
Production Credits:Edited by Chad Beck, Christopher Branca, Andrew Coffman ; original music by Ian Hultquist ; cinematography by Andrew Rossi, Bryan Sarkinen, Andrew Coffman ; executive producers, Vinnie Malhotra, Amy Entelis.