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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1699/how_free.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='How Free Is Free College?' data-article-id='2217'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='8875'>Some people say the United States higher education system is the best in the world.</span> <span data-start-time='8875' data-end-time='15875'>But the cost of a college education in the U.S. can be very high --</span> <span data-start-time='15875' data-end-time='21958'>about 70 percent of students graduate with some debt.</span> <span data-start-time='21958' data-end-time='32229'>In 2014, the total amount of that debt in the U.S. reached about $1.2 trillion.</span> <span data-start-time='32229' data-end-time='41354'>Norway, Finland, Germany, Mexico and Brazil are very different countries.</span> <span data-start-time='41354' data-end-time='45313'>But they all have one thing in common:</span> <span data-start-time='45313' data-end-time='52042'>citizens can attend public universities for little to no cost.</span> <span data-start-time='52042' data-end-time='61500'>That is why some American lawmakers are looking to other countries as models for change.</span> <span data-start-time='61500' data-end-time='73229'>During his 2016 presidential campaign, Senator Bernie Sanders said the U.S needed to offer free college.</span> <span data-start-time='73229' data-end-time='77979'>Sanders&rsquo; presidential campaign was unsuccessful.</span> <span data-start-time='77979' data-end-time='83625'>But he is not alone in the fight for free education.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1699/how_free.jpg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=8158 data-hint-location='15875' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1699/what_does_debt_mean.m4a'>What does debt mean?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='duty or obligation'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1699/models_for_change.m4a'><span>models for change</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1699/presidential_campaign.m4a'><span>presidential campaign</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1699/attend_a_university.m4a'><span>attend a university</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1699/duty_or_obligation.m4a'><span>duty or obligation</span></div></div></div><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=8159 data-hint-location='15875' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1699/how_many_students_graduate_with_debt.m4a'>How many students graduate with debt?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='seventy percent'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1699/fifty_dozen.m4a'><span>fifty dozen</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1699/seventy_percent.m4a'><span>seventy percent</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1699/almost_all.m4a'><span>almost all</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1699/less_than_half.m4a'><span>less than half</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=8160 data-hint-location='52042' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1699/lawmakers_are_looking_to_other__blank__as_models_for_change.m4a'>Lawmakers are looking to other <span class='blank'>countries</span> as models for change.</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='countries'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1699/citizens.m4a'><span>citizens</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1699/colleagues.m4a'><span>colleagues</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1699/countries.m4a'><span>countries</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1699/industries.m4a'><span>industries</span></div></div></div><div class='question-buttons'><button class='skip-button'></button><button class='hint-button'></button><button class='speak-button'></button></div></div></div>

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