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Curious Minds: Education

3 episodes 85%4KCC

Where opportunity, cost, and the future of learning collide.

Explore how experts assess education's role in society and the forces reshaping higher learning. Through debates over access, affordability, social mobility, and workforce demand, this series reveals why education remains central to economic opportunity and the common good. Sign up to watch a timely examination of questions that affect students, families, and society.

Episode guide

3 episodes
1
1Higher Education For The Common Good
John De Gioia, President of Georgetown University, makes a case that higher education is a public good and should be available to all, not a private privilege increasingly only available to the wealthy.
2 min
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2Are Kids In The US Under-Educated?
Brit Kirwin, Chancellor Emeritus of the University System of Maryland, believes that access for all to higher education is a social justice issue.
3 min
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3Is College Worth The Cost?
Brit Kirwan, Chancellor Emeritus of the University System of Maryland, answers the question of whether higher education is worth the ever-increasing price in the long run.
2 min
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