Here are three ways we can fix tuition pricing for the majority of parents and students.

The Washington Post reports.

Three ways to fix college tuition pricing

There are solutions to the college cost mystery that would allow students to know more about what they’ll pay, before they hit the books. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
In a Washington Post opinion column last week, Danielle Allen was right to say that the tuition number the federal government requires colleges to publish is useless. On most campuses, few students pay that sticker price because of discounts in the form of “scholarships.”

But Allen’s solutions to this problem would largely fail to bring transparency to the tuition bill that confuses most students and parents. While her ideas might work at elite universities that enroll mostly upper middle-class and wealthy students like the two institutions where Allen has served as a trustee (Amherst College and Princeton University), they wouldn’t provide much help to most students and parents struggling to make sense about which colleges provide the best value.