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Don Lewis
Anna Richardson
ENG 112
21 Mar 2018
Annotated Bibliography: Should college be free?
This is an annotated bibliography on how free college could benefit the younger
generation in America. I am researching the many issues on why programs for free college
haven’t been made and how free college would even be paid for.
“Should College Be Free? Pros, Cons, and Alternatives.” Trade Schools, Colleges and
Universities, Beelineweb.com, 23 Feb 2018, https://www.trade-
schools.net/articles/should-college-be-free.asp. Accessed 11 Mar 2018.
In this article by Trade Schools, Colleges and Universities, it gives the pros and cons
of whether education should be free. Having free education would benefit the nation
especially, the modern middle class. The article gives comparisons between our country
and how greatly the benefit to lower cost of college. As long as you benefit from it,
College level education should be a right, according to the article. I will be using the
information from this article to give insight on how free education is better for
everyone.
“Free Community College.” Congressional Digest, vol. 94, no. 4, Apr. 2015, p. 9.
EBSCOhost, www.nclive.org/cgi-
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bin/nclsm?url=%22http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=afh&AN=10
1913975&site=ehost-live%22. Accessed 13 Mar 2018.
In this volume of an article published by Congressional Digest, speaks on
the initiative president Obama gave for citizens to have free community college. The
article explains that President Obama asked for a 60-billion-dollar program that would
help over 9 million state participants to have free community college. The article goes on
to say that students would have to meet requirements to take full advantage of this
program and some of them include having a 2.5 GPA and taking the steps to transfer to
a four-year university. The program ultimately didn’t have a great response, so it was
refused by a few parties. I will use this article to explain that free college is
