Mending College Hoops
When Indiana University English Professor Murray Sperber speaks, college basketball coaches listen and may get mad. NPR's Tom Goldman reports that the professor s proposal to solve the NCAA's problems involves a revolutionary idea: pay student athletes.
Audie Cornish talks to Caroline Hoxby, an economics professor at Stanford University, about her study on expanding college opportunities for low-income students. They discuss how providing low-income applicants with more information about selective college can improve application and acceptance rates.