Ivory Tower
As tuition spirals upward and student debt passes a trillion dollars, students and parents ask, “Is college worth it?” From the halls of Harvard to public and private colleges in financial crisis to education startups in Silicon Valley, an urgent portrait emerges of a great American institution at the breaking point.
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Genre: Documentary
Director: Andrew Rossi
Actors: Andrew Delbanco, Anthony Carnevale, Clayton Christensen, David Boone, Drew Gilpin Faust, Elizabeth Armstrong, Jamshed Bharucha, Jerry Brown, Michael Crow, Peter Buckley, Richard Arum
Zero Days
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